Example sentences of "we [verb] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marty and Jean who ran Granny Takes A Trip were mates of Malcolm 's and they all used to meet up after work in the pub Sometimes Nick would be there too and we got talking to him . |
| 2 | So it was Bernie we got talking to in the pub about a name for the band . |
| 3 | We got talking and strolled along the riverside path too engrossed to hear the rumble of thunder getting nearer , or note the wind getting up to a blustery gale . |
| 4 | Afterwards , we got talking . |
| 5 | We got talking one evening last week , and he was asking about Carinish Court . |
| 6 | Well , we got talking , you see . |
| 7 | But we got talking to her anyway . |
| 8 | Ha ha , it 's your au — fr … parents ' friend , Janice , Gav beamed , radiating unrepentant guilt ; came round here the other day looking for you we got talking went for a curry had a few drinks ended up back here one thing led to another know how it is always liked older women they 're more experienced know what I mean arf arf anyway spent an extremely enjoyable New Year at her place apart from the usual visit to my folk 's of course oh by the way she 's coming round here tonight I 'm cooking lasagne can you swap rooms seeing Norris wo n't be back until tomorrow it 's just I did n't expect you back until then either , that okay ? |
| 9 | But we got talking when I had to spend an afternoon in his laboratory checking reports for courts with his staff , and he was ever so nice . |
| 10 | I was keeping a glass of chablis company the other day with Jonathan Hayden and Fiona Brownlee from Pavilion Books , and we got talking about what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth . |
| 11 | Later on we got talking , more seriously about the North , the unemployment . |
| 12 | Yeah you 're talking about a dream , because er in my mind I can hear George now in a bar lounge I walked in , he was with two of his mates and we got talking , he said here 's my , this is m he used to say Chip then , you know , George did this is my young Chip he said he goes to work in the middle of the night . |
| 13 | and erm you know , she 'd come from Hampshire apparently and she an an yo you know , er we got talking about ma and she 's taken her child away from the local school and sen , is now going to a little private school up the Tin Valley , near Tingrace apparently . |
| 14 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 15 | We sit talking , the door wide to the humming summer air . |
| 16 | Surely it is time we stopped talking of elephants as if they were a commodity to be traded , like so many cans of paint , and accept them for what they are , ancient and splendid fellow inhabitants of the earth who share with us the joys of close kinship bonds and grieve when they are severed . |
| 17 | The marriage stopped working because we stopped talking , and when things started going wrong , instead of addressing the issues head on , I began volunteer work for the Samaritans . |
| 18 | We stopped talking immediately . |
| 19 | It is time we stopped talking of despair and started living in hope . |
| 20 | Remember the time we stopped talking to her and erm she just thought that you were n't talking to her because you probably did n't hear something she 'd said ? |
| 21 | What else have we got talking too fast . |
| 22 | We began talking in a general way about modern theologians . |
| 23 | I pay tribute to the Association of British Insurers , to which we began talking a couple of years ago . |
| 24 | Er , the other thing is of course colleagues that the doors at the side are , are open for very good reasons and I mentioned yesterday from time to time that once we get er we get talking there 's a that goes and colleagues at the side of Congress have a great deal of difficulty in hearing and listening to the debate . |
| 25 | ‘ We started talking and planning months ago . |
| 26 | We started talking about poetry and about our favourite modern poets . |
| 27 | It could be argued that they might help to identify him , but it was felt that they might relate to another crime and that if we started talking about them it might put whoever was responsible on his guard . |
| 28 | And then once Helen and that had woken up that was about half eleven she woke up and then it like , oh , our provisions and then we started talking and everything else together like |
| 29 | So anyway , we started talking about him , they 're doing a survey and er and suddenly it must of been a quarter of an hour later remember the the drinks , I have n't done any drinks ! |
| 30 | We started talking and it 's all figures flying , and if fact it 's that Casio three , eight , seven . |