Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of your colleagues , anybody in the room , and if you , when you are the potential client , when you talk to Gerald or whoever 's talking to you , er , as if you 're a potential client , relate to everything he says . |
| 2 | Erm , current speaker will next speaker by name , so when I speak to you and I call your name , you know that I am talking to you . |
| 3 | and and sometimes I think to myself , would I love this person that i 'm talking to , to become a believer of Christ ? |
| 4 | so obviously she 's assuming that she 's talking to Elvis , but er , she ca n't prove it |
| 5 | I know Ellen Garwood loved to call him Mr Green , and when she would write me letters thinking that Mr Green was her real son , I got the impression that she was talking to me on the telephone underneath her bed , about the fun she was having . |
| 6 | In trying to articulate what she felt so strongly , Clare had forgotten that she was talking to a very sick woman . |
| 7 | Graham started to smile , though he thought the joke itself might be in rather poor taste , but then he was aware of Sara turning quickly , putting her glass on the mantelpiece and looking straight at him , coming closer , her face set in strange hard lines , eyes bright , taking him by the elbow and turning her head as if to emphasise that she was talking to Graham , ignoring Slater , saying , " You do dance , do n't you ? " |
| 8 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 9 | A reader has suggested that the belated realization that you 're talking to an ex-lover is best expressed by the old Tallulah Bankhead crack : ‘ I did n't recognize you with your clothes on . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But now that you 're tucked up in here , none of your mates will notice that you 're talking to us . |
| 11 | Just to make sure that they think that you 're talking to them |
| 12 | I knew that you were talking to him about something |
| 13 | Now that we 're talking to Anne and er she wants it pink . |
| 14 | We may recognize their mannerisms in ourselves or find that we are talking to our children in just the tones that they talked to us . |
| 15 | Therefore , they try to conceal the fact that they are talking to people , sometimes by giving the impression through non-verbal behaviour that they are issuing directions , or by calling at their homes . |
| 16 | Have I remembered to do that ? ) sometimes kindly people try so hard to get their message across that one would think that they were talking to a mentally backward five-year-old ! |
| 17 | Amstrad Plc has confirmed that it is talking to the company about taking on at least one of the products . |
| 18 | OfficePower for Unix currently only supports ICL 's long time relational database partner , Ingres , though there are plans to bring the Oracle Corp offering into play , and the company confirms that it is talking to other companies too . |
| 19 | Yamazaki says it will be a V12 and that he 's talking to three companies . |
| 20 | At this point I feel honour bound to remind Mister C that he 's talking to a journalist , that what might be an affectionate insult from his friends will probably piss him off massively when he sees it in print . |
| 21 | Managing director David Crisp says that he is talking to three potential manufacturers at the moment , one of which is presumably Amstrad . |
| 22 | He reminded himself that he was talking to the inventor of the firm and decided to prod a bit further . |
| 23 | The reporter , Mick Brown , followed this story with exemplary tact , or , put it another way , as if it had never struck him that he was talking to loonies . |
| 24 | ‘ That dog 's half mad , ’ Tom said to Willie but found that he was talking to the air for Willie was several yards behind , still trying to keep up , his cheeks flushed with the effort . |
| 25 | ‘ I heard from friends of mine that Hezbollah had lost faith in him , that he was talking to and seeing too many people . |
| 26 | Patrick could tell by the change in his tone of voice that he was talking to a woman . |
| 27 | If anyone from the group here met Kemp at 3 p.m. , it was n't Downes , because nine or ten of you here will willingly testify to the incontrovertible fact that he was talking to you from that time onwards . |
| 28 | Above all , his direct , intimate , but emotionally charged style gave listeners huddled around their receivers in occupied France the sense that he was talking to each of them . |
| 29 | Mr Millan said that he was talking to UK authorities and expressed some optimism the matter could be resolved , although EC officials believe the tougher rules could lead to new battles with the Treasury . |
| 30 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |