Example sentences of "he talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen to him talking about his moment of conversion when at a certain event he ‘ asked Jesus into his heart ’ . |
| 2 | But to avoid this return to voluntarism he must have in mind some further conception of strategy , and it is not surprising to find him talking about it in what might be called its objective sense : the strategy of a class — the course of action which will best enable it to gain power over other classes — is estimated in the light of its objective interests and its position in a formation , and is detached from the beliefs and aspirations of its members . |
| 3 | She knew that dead people could be kept in this state because the man who lived next door to Mrs MacDonagh worked in an undertakers , and Ellie had heard him talking about it to Mrs MacDonagh . |
| 4 | There were times when men went and made confessions to Bishop Hrolf , to stop him talking about engineering . |
| 5 | And frequently , at the end of his life as much as in A Free Man 's Worship , you find him talking about nature in these highly personalized terms . |
| 6 | If she did n't like him talking to Mrs Wright , she would n't like him meeting her friend and going into her house . |
| 7 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 8 | I told him that I did n't really see the point in him talking to Frank and me separately . |
| 9 | I 've seen him talking to actors in the bar — he 's happy enough then — livelier than when he 's at home . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you see him talking to Dr Darnell at any time ? ’ |
| 11 | So I can still hear him talking to me when I 'm doing some of this stuff , especially when I 'm trying to sing — which has not been easy . |
| 12 | Willie heard him talking to someone inside . |
| 13 | He managed to catch a brief glimpse of him talking to a man at the end of the platform . |
| 14 | Little Billy heard him talking to the robin in a kind of curious twitter . |
| 15 | and each time I watched him talking to the drivers |
| 16 | She had stopped being so afraid once she had heard him talking to her mother . |
| 17 | I found him talking to Miss Ingram , who looked at me in disgust when I interrupted their conversation . |
| 18 | After a while she went back again , and heard him talking to his broker about checks that were bouncing . |
| 19 | With a feeling of relief , she spotted him talking to a distinguished-looking Barbadian and his exotic female companion . |
| 20 | And then she saw him talking to Edward and Jean Powers and then someone had mislaid their glass and she had to find another and then there was the problem of the Taylors and old Mrs Phipson . |
| 21 | He was sure no one had noticed him talking to the journalist . |
| 22 | I saw him talking to Nubeneham . |
| 23 | Robbie could hear him talking to the intruder . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , I heard him talking to her . |
| 25 | Paige could hear him talking to the pilot , and from time to time the sound of their combined laughter . |
| 26 | After a time she heard him talking to someone on the telephone , but , when he did n't reappear immediately , gathered that he had no news for her . |
| 27 | Picking her way through the guests , she eventually found him talking to Edward , but when he saw her approaching he left his host and came to meet her . |
| 28 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 29 | Vaguely she heard him talking of ‘ luxury leisure complexes ’ and ‘ total pleasure environments ’ . |
| 30 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |