Example sentences of "i [vb past] talking " in BNC.
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1 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
2 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |
3 | Sandy was already in the side , and I got talking to him again , Calero was struggling , and I said I might not have a bag for the Ryder Cup . |
4 | We played practice rounds with Greg and for some reason I got talking and joking with him a lot . |
5 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | So a fellow named Mr worked at he was a neighbour , I got talking to him he says I 'll mention it and you can come . |
8 | I were gon na report it today then I got talking with gaffer I were sorting this job out |
9 | ‘ You tried fighting , and I tried talking . |
10 | since I stopped talking . |
11 | I enjoyed talking to him , and thought him a very good interviewer — and that makes all the difference . |
12 | But I enjoyed talking to you . |
13 | I started talking , at first to myself , striding about the room . |
14 | I started talking rather incoherently about a shipwreck ! |
15 | I started talking hurriedly , hoping to distract my companion . |
16 | Later that day , during the play-hour , I found Burns alone by the fire-side , reading the same book as before , and I started talking to her . |
17 | So , I started talking to you … asking you to come back to me … not to leave me . |
18 | ‘ You regained consciousness about half an hour after I started talking to you . |
19 | ‘ I could see what he was thinking , so I started talking about love , how it means different things to different people , and that 's when he said it . ’ |
20 | Now the funny thing about it , when I took metallurgy I got , I , I got all this process I knew all about it you know , and er I had it the theory explained to me then , but er I was in the Bell one day about twenty years ago and an old boy came in and I started talking to him and he says , I bet you do n't know what I am ? |
21 | Just move onto the next one then media trainer I started talking to the training school about doing some training for officers it started with C I D cos you often find that a D S is an acting D I and when we asked them to do an interview about a crime or incident they say we 've not done radio interviews before , so Phil has er supported it and we 're gon na run some sort of training scheme one day courses for them . |
22 | Okay this er this lecture is called multiple government and the federal system and it flows directly from the last lecture when I started talking about the er the constitution and about the principles and the values that erm form the American system . |
23 | Anyway , so I , I was getting a bit worried about it , and , I can , cos I was having these headaches , and I started talking to Phil and I , I had n't really said much to him about it . |
24 | Not since I saw Talking Heads doing Yardbirds covers here in 1976 ( This is Earth CBGB 's ? — Ed ) have I enjoyed myself so much watching guitars being played . |
25 | I kept talking to his mother and the girl at the cash-register , but I was so distracted that I did n't know what I was saying . |
26 | I kept talking into my mike , no doubt a trifle hysterically , as we made it . |
27 | My grass roots were general practice and I liked talking to people and solving problems , but as you get promoted within a firm you lose that personal contact . |
28 | When I was young she used to come up to my mother 's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady . |
29 | Well I keep telling you to move that away from the house I said talking about your rising crime , you 're giving them a ladder to use as well ! |
30 | So Wilson and I were quite chummy together , and he looked at me approvingly through his thick-lensed glasses as I sat talking with his wife about , for instance , winter tasks . |