Example sentences of "was talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke had disappeared while she was talking to Godfrey . |
| 2 | Ambulance to Raigmore Hospital , Inverness and a few hours later I was talking to the consultant . |
| 3 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 4 | I was talking to Al Davis ( the team 's owner ) and he said , ‘ There 's no pressure on you to do anything . ’ |
| 5 | I was talking to the boys [ members of the RUC ] and one says to me , ‘ When do you start work , later on ? ’ |
| 6 | The Officer was talking to two gunners who appeared to be Polish judging by their accents . |
| 7 | ‘ I was talking to him in the post office . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was talking to Sister Oliver . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't want to hear any ‘ buts ’ , ’ Erika snapped , her eyes on Fritz who , despite competition from the Louts , was talking to Bunte . |
| 10 | ‘ I was talking to him this morning , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ I was talking to him this morning , ’ Richard said again , wondering why he could not control his shivering . |
| 12 | He reminded himself that he was talking to the inventor of the firm and decided to prod a bit further . |
| 13 | China has learned to be sceptical on that score , but on March 20th Mr Li was talking to the theoretically converted — the 2,700 delegates to the annual National People 's Congress in Beijing . |
| 14 | ‘ I was talking to Mrs Jones today and she said — ‘ ) Neither felt the need of talking , for the sake of talking . |
| 15 | She was talking to him as if he was grown-up and it made him feel uncomfortable . |
| 16 | Then she was talking to the woman . |
| 17 | Clem Bunker was talking to Mark in the garden . |
| 18 | She was talking to me just now , before you put your oar in . |
| 19 | ‘ Come on , ’ he says , like he was talking to a little kid . |
| 20 | ‘ You know when Simon was talking to you yesterday , in the arcades ? ’ he asked her . |
| 21 | ‘ I was talking to Mr Sugden . |
| 22 | I know Ellen Garwood loved to call him Mr Green , and when she would write me letters thinking that Mr Green was her real son , I got the impression that she was talking to me on the telephone underneath her bed , about the fun she was having . |
| 23 | Lamond was talking to some people and then as he was leaving he came by me and said , ‘ But , you know , it was n't all as beautiful as you might imagine ! ’ |
| 24 | Privilege elides into Freedom , libertas into libertates again ; the practical sense depended on who was talking to whom about what , and in which circumstances . |
| 25 | Anna was talking to an old friend of theirs , Irena Ignatiev . |
| 26 | The reporter , Mick Brown , followed this story with exemplary tact , or , put it another way , as if it had never struck him that he was talking to loonies . |
| 27 | As he warmed to his theme , George forgot he was talking to one individual , and through him to a huge lay audience . |
| 28 | At a party in Soho in 1914 Epstein was talking to Beatrice , who made it clear that she was at a loose end in her life . |
| 29 | She stared into the camera as if she was talking to it . |
| 30 | Even when she was talking to you or giving you your change , you could feel her smile going somewhere over your shoulder as she took in the whole room behind you . |