Example sentences of "talking to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact was that talking to her either in person or on the phone gave him a sort of erection . |
| 2 | These guys are nudging each other , they go up to her , the music changes , and they 're talking to her , and she says no or whatever , and then the last guy walks up to her , the woman turns round , and she 's been replaced by someone wearing the same dress but she 's really fat . |
| 3 | My mum had always been very open , but I had problems talking to her simply because she was my mum . |
| 4 | ‘ What were you talking to her for ? ’ |
| 5 | At Madame 's right hand , on the stool next to her , hardly ever talking to her but always right there beside her , was the man that we all called O. I deliberately have n't told you about him yet . |
| 6 | Talking to her , as so often , left him demoralized and confused . |
| 7 | In this I may be vulnerable , for I was on the lookout for miracles and it was while watching Nancy , listening to her and eventually breaking my own icy shield and talking to her , that I came close to seeing what I was looking for . |
| 8 | I 'd have to find some way of talking to her alone . |
| 9 | So why now did the very fact that he was awake and talking to her seem like an invasion of her privacy ? |
| 10 | I was talking to her at a women 's group meeting — we were playing records . |
| 11 | Lula and Claire were talking to her , a sort of duet : Lula was persuasive and chatty , Claire chimed in with sharp ideological comments or scornful snorts : hard cop , soft cop . |
| 12 | At least he was n't going to pretend he had n't been talking to her . |
| 13 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 14 | They met , he insists , soon after , not before , he began presenting Dance Energy — ‘ I got talking to her and I liked that woman ’ — and his admiration for her today is obvious . |
| 15 | It 's I who have been talking to her . |
| 16 | With a burst of self-pity , she mentally reviled Hank for never talking to her or telling her what he was going to do . |
| 17 | Imperceptibly Hamilton had switched from talking to her to the girl who was still staring at her . |
| 18 | In just a few seconds Rob would be talking to her and it would be all right . |
| 19 | Perhaps talking to her about Rob made him feel that someone was dancing on his own grave . |
| 20 | He was talking to her . |
| 21 | Mother took books and crayons and accompanied Susan while she was seated on the lavatory , encouraging and talking to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in it . |
| 22 | Talking to her is less embarrassing than talking to anyone else . |
| 23 | ‘ You go round there talking to her ? ’ |
| 24 | Agnosticism was n't much help either , not when God kept talking to her . |
| 25 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 26 | He began talking to her about birdsong , about bird music , really . |
| 27 | And he had never stopped talking to her . |
| 28 | After talking to her for a while I asked her if she was English . |
| 29 | The cow lowing and lowing and Mister Johnny talking to her in his soft , bubbly voice , and pulling on the little hooves when they slowly appeared . |
| 30 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |