Example sentences of "talking to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Squidgy tape of Princess Diana talking to close friend James Gilbey was repeatedly broadcast to guarantee it would be intercepted by radio snoops , an investigation by intelligence services has discovered . |
| 2 | of tricking people into believing sort of things that are n't true , which they 're saying that er they 're talking to deceased people like people said they talked to er Elvis Presley |
| 3 | ‘ By contrast , talking to small and medium-sized businesses in the South-East I often find that they have only ever experienced one recession the current one and it can prove fatal . ’ |
| 4 | As he went about the country talking to young people involved with the Trust , |
| 5 | The remarkable consistency with which adults and , particularly , mothers modify their language when talking to young children has encouraged researchers to term this form of address ‘ Motherese ’ or ‘ Babytalk ’ . |
| 6 | In terms of structural characteristics , mothers talking to young children employ shorter sentences , a lower mean length of utterance , more single words , fewer complex sentences and a more restricted vocabulary . |
| 7 | The important role attributed to ‘ Motherese ’ in language development among normally developing children , has , in turn , fuelled speculation that some forms of language impairment may arise from the child having insufficient exposure to adult language or , alternatively , being among adults who adopt inappropriate styles of talking to young children . |
| 8 | She gained her Queen 's Award after spending two years working on several community projects including talking to young people about drug abuse and helping with conservation . |
| 9 | Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft . |
| 10 | I think that the skills and interest we develop in our young graduates these days are very much wider ranging and they 're reflected into the great variety of jobs into which you go , and erm frequently in talking to young people about geography I 'm at pains to say well we 're really rather a useless subject , but we do give insights into a lot of sorts of problems and erm these lead in many directions . |
| 11 | ‘ We then looked at individuals and then started talking to four or five venture capital companies as well as merchant banks . |
| 12 | Perhaps one of the most surprising things about talking to Russian women now is their underlying optimism and hope . |
| 13 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |
| 14 | If she has to deal with him at all , even quite briefly , people start saying ‘ She 's always talking to that man , — who knows why she has so much to say . ’ |
| 15 | I said to her : ‘ I saw you talking to that fellow , and I 'd warned you . ’ |
| 16 | While he was still talking to that woman , the dhāmi 's body slowly began to relax . |
| 17 | I was talking to that presenter of that alternative-politics programme — what 's his name ? — and he said that he 'd got annoyed with a colleague because she criticized his pink bow-tie . |
| 18 | I would have caught up with you earlier but I saw you talking to that poor downtrodden mouse of a Haynes woman and waited till she 'd gone . |
| 19 | She moved on , overhearing talk of broccoli , of death in Kabul , of the phenomenal transatlantic success of Pete Petrie 's new novel , and there was Petrie himself talking to that little monster Ivan about his meeting with Norman Mailer , whooping with laughter , and hitting his own bald head with emphatic glee . |
| 20 | It 's no use talking to that , because |
| 21 | It 's like talking to that wall |
| 22 | I shall be talking to that trio myself . |
| 23 | " I was talking to that boy next to you . " |
| 24 | and she went across the road for something and while she was across the road Mrs came and was talking to that man . |
| 25 | Anyway I were , I were talking to that lady and er she were on about you , and she says about putting your name |
| 26 | It gets real hot there ! just talking to that . |
| 27 | Did you se , the advert with er Ronnie Barker talking to that other feller and he says oh aye he says we were going through a really bad patch me and the wife who went to marriage guidance and Ronnie Barker says oh did it do you any good ? |
| 28 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
| 29 | George was talking to that when he goes |
| 30 | I would n't trust anybody I was talking to that lady , paper shop you know where you used to wait for Les |