Example sentences of "he [verb] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realised that , subconsciously , she wanted him to keep talking to her . |
| 2 | Let him start talking up our achievements rather than pointing to an agenda which his party has already signed up to which would destroy millions of jobs through statutory works councils , statutory minimum wage and statutory compulsory working week . |
| 3 | I only got to hear him start talking to your Raymond |
| 4 | He ceased talking . |
| 5 | Papa did n't know what to do , and then he got talking to some of his cronies , and he decided on a Grand Scheme . |
| 6 | He got talking to a man called Mac he met while listening to Vivaldi in Regent 's Park and they agreed to try playing something in one of the Baker Street concourses . |
| 7 | Then he got talking about you , asked me if I 'd ever heard of you . ’ |
| 8 | There he got talking to a gaunt girl in an ash-stained black smock who claimed to have read his screenplay and who , over glasses of red wine , and later in the terrible pub , told him he was a weakling and a hypocrite with no notion of the ways of men and women . |
| 9 | When he arrived he got talking with someone of about his age , who had also run away from home . |
| 10 | He tried talking but the teachers would n't listen and thought he was repeating words like a parrot or just being cheeky . |
| 11 | He had studied and pondered the case , and was immersed in it ; he tried talking to both Marco and Eddie , and pursues Marco for the promise that could save Eddie 's life . |
| 12 | He stopped talking , still breathing hard , and held his glass out frankly for a fill of wine , like a child asking for milk . |
| 13 | In the end he stopped talking and watched her till she looked at him , sideways and warily . |
| 14 | Then he stopped talking . |
| 15 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 16 | He stopped talking to me and changed deadlines so they became impossible to meet . |
| 17 | He stopped talking as Marshka entered and wheeled himself into the empty space at the table , at that end farthest , on the right-hand side , from the president . |
| 18 | He stopped talking as he glanced out of the window . |
| 19 | He stopped talking and , presumably , saw . |
| 20 | He stopped talking . |
| 21 | He stopped talking and looked out of the window . |
| 22 | He stopped talking . |
| 23 | We 've got to keep him quiet before he starts talking about us to his new friends . ’ |
| 24 | Soon as soon as he starts talking about cars yap yap yap yap yap yap he does n't stop . |
| 25 | Because you know what he 's like when he gets talking , he talks so much he just cuts all your hair off Ye yeah it 's all cut on the sides and cos , cos they 're all taught to finger dry and what have you , he does all this and what have you . |
| 26 | Someone like James for , how long did that go on for , for about a month , when he could n't he stop talking about me all the time it was sort of like , you know , I like this , you know what I mean , he was talking |
| 27 | He began talking out aloud , to himself . |
| 28 | He began talking to her about birdsong , about bird music , really . |
| 29 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 30 | He began talking in his familiar rapid-fire voice . |