Example sentences of "have [verb] talking " in BNC.
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1 | I have found that if you keep still , if you keep quiet , then the other person feels he has to continue talking . |
2 | Sometimes it is just a matter of taking a message ; at others ( especially when we lived near a place that gave over-night accommodation to tramps ) it has involved talking — or more often listening — to them . |
3 | A LOYALIST politician has admitted talking to Sinn Fein about his plans to travel into the heart of republican areas of Belfast . |
4 | Now Kenneth has started talking tough on crime , and if Gillian Shephard gets really nasty with people trying to claim unemployment benefit , things will start to look up . ’ |
5 | Sybase Inc , Emeryville , California , has started talking about extending the client/server architecture of its relational database , and last week revealed its Enterprise Client/Server Roadmap . |
6 | To arrive there the counsellor has to stop talking , and in order to stop talking , answerable and leading questions are required . |
7 | By some spontaneous telepathic inspiration , the entire world has begun talking about the new genius in its midst . |
8 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
9 | I said it was about the photographs , but even before I 'd finished talking , he gave me this message from Marius to … you know … to get lost . ’ |
10 | ‘ Just me ? ’ she queried when he 'd finished talking , her face giving little away of the tangled emotions behind its passive façade . |
11 | It was strange but , since they 'd started talking about getting rid of Donald , the baby had quietened down . |
12 | ‘ He switched on after they 'd started talking , but you 'll soon catch the drift . ’ |
13 | Er anyway as I say er I realized when I 'd started talking er that I was digging a bigger and bigger hole for myself so I er I climbed out of it and and made an exit . |
14 | You 're gon na have to sit talking cos I 've taped that |
15 | We must have sat talking for nearly fifteen minutes , in this absurd stilted way . |
16 | Do we have to keep talking about him ? ’ she demanded irritably . |
17 | You 'll have to keep talking Carla . |
18 | By now two people would have started talking at the same moment . |
19 | Such strict training was given by Tiller that none of his dancers would have contemplated talking in the first place . |
20 | I 'll ring her when I 've stopped talking to you , she 'll be so relieved . |
21 | and I realise you 've stopped talking . |
22 | But there were tears in Alexandra 's eyes and a lot of the older people had stopped talking to watch . |
23 | In a house facing there and her son was one of then Caernarfon er what do you call them er militia like and they had to go talking with me and a little One of the first little motor cars like this . |
24 | ‘ I 've enjoyed talking to you . |
25 | ‘ I 've missed talking to you . |
26 | As he was relating his story , he suddenly realised that sitting before him among the directors was the sandy-haired man he had seen talking to Mr Dwerringhouse . |
27 | But on the whole once I 've got talking it 's been very successful , and people are always amazed at what they do remember in great detail about how they got things , why they got them , when they got them , and I think by and large the people that I have talked to have found it very interesting to do for themselves as well as for me . |
28 | They had stayed talking very late last night , and he knew a lot more about her than she had ever expected to tell anyone , while she knew something about him . |
29 | So , I , cos I had to do talking for her and all ! |
30 | I mean , if you think of say , the time we 've spent talking about functions and mapping . |