Example sentences of "be [verb] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The first sign of madness , ’ joke people who have been caught talking to themselves , confident of course that it is not . |
| 2 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've made sure that I am seen talking to you at the time of this man 's arrest in a public place . |
| 4 | Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft . |
| 5 | Det Con Turnbull recognised two of the youths and his inquiries revealed they had been overheard talking about cash and an off-licence . |
| 6 | ‘ You are to start talking to him , Miss Quinn . |
| 7 | Rosette could be heard talking in the kitchen . |
| 8 | Crooked stove-pipe chimneys sprouted from a hundred roofs , and families could be seen talking animatedly in rows of caravan windows . |
| 9 | Er so much so , you see that er er er people who did have employment in the industry would not , would not be seen talking to left-wing Labour party people , or members of the Communist party , because they readily understood , you know , that here was a risk that they were running , whereby they may indeed lo er er lose their employment . |
| 10 | But I did n't want to be seen talking to her in the office , so I should have to wait until she got home . |
| 11 | Why should n't I be seen talking to an old mate , eh ? ’ |
| 12 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 13 | so I 'll be sitting talking to Donna , cos Donna , Helen and Jenny be sitting in one group with Sarah , they 'll be chatting away and I 'll be sitting in the middle , sitting on |
| 14 | Do n't ask me Matt , I 've been sitting talking for many long days |
| 15 | We are left talking to each other almost as if we had met before . |
| 16 | And you were seen talking to your pal Jordan who is on the case . |
| 17 | In Birmingham , Alabama , you could be banished from the city for being seen talking to a Communist , which was held to be committing a public nuisance . |
| 18 | Fighting for breath he called up to the driver , ‘ I ca n't find anything amiss , ’ and then walked towards his workmates who were standing talking . |
| 19 | The two girls he had noticed earlier were standing talking to some other girls . |
| 20 | While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal . |
| 21 | ‘ And finally , he does n't even notice that he 's stopped talking and is only drawing . |
| 22 | She 's stopped talking to me . |
| 23 | On the tape Dame Vera Lynn is interviewed talking about the work of the Association . |
| 24 | I hope you can find it , er if yo if er if you want and and the important thing is to keep talking about it , keep exchanging information . |
| 25 | The first step is to start talking about stress , not as something shameful but as an interesting , understandable and , up to a point , an inevitable accompaniment to high levels of demand and uncertainty . |
| 26 | Okay , now erm , today as you realize with feelings of immense relief is the last lecture of the term , so , so what I 'm gon na do , is to start talking about the er , so called black books of Freud , the set texts in this , in this course and I 'm gon na start talking today about the first , and in some ways , one of the most important of these , Totem and Taboo , and since it 's the last lecture of term , and you probably all forget what I said over the Christmas holiday , and wo n't be able to recall it afterwards , through the alcoholic haze , er what I thought I 'd do today , was talk about Totem and Taboo in the way in which it looked backwards rather than forwards . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's started talking , ’ I say . |
| 28 | ‘ Okay , ’ I say , when Frank 's finished talking to me as though I 'm a Sun reader . |
| 29 | Speaker B's strategy , then , in a situation where she finds that she is unsure about what she thinks they 're talking about , is to stop talking . |
| 30 | Shortly after taking the Irish job , he was heard talking about ‘ John McGrath ’ , the former Newcastle and Southampton defender , who now manages Halifax . |