Example sentences of "he [verb] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ceased talking . |
| 2 | Papa did n't know what to do , and then he got talking to some of his cronies , and he decided on a Grand Scheme . |
| 3 | He got talking to a man called Mac he met while listening to Vivaldi in Regent 's Park and they agreed to try playing something in one of the Baker Street concourses . |
| 4 | Then he got talking about you , asked me if I 'd ever heard of you . ’ |
| 5 | There he got talking to a gaunt girl in an ash-stained black smock who claimed to have read his screenplay and who , over glasses of red wine , and later in the terrible pub , told him he was a weakling and a hypocrite with no notion of the ways of men and women . |
| 6 | When he arrived he got talking with someone of about his age , who had also run away from home . |
| 7 | He tried talking but the teachers would n't listen and thought he was repeating words like a parrot or just being cheeky . |
| 8 | He had studied and pondered the case , and was immersed in it ; he tried talking to both Marco and Eddie , and pursues Marco for the promise that could save Eddie 's life . |
| 9 | He stopped talking , still breathing hard , and held his glass out frankly for a fill of wine , like a child asking for milk . |
| 10 | In the end he stopped talking and watched her till she looked at him , sideways and warily . |
| 11 | Then he stopped talking . |
| 12 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 13 | He stopped talking to me and changed deadlines so they became impossible to meet . |
| 14 | He stopped talking as Marshka entered and wheeled himself into the empty space at the table , at that end farthest , on the right-hand side , from the president . |
| 15 | He stopped talking as he glanced out of the window . |
| 16 | He stopped talking and , presumably , saw . |
| 17 | He stopped talking . |
| 18 | He stopped talking and looked out of the window . |
| 19 | He stopped talking . |
| 20 | We 've got to keep him quiet before he starts talking about us to his new friends . ’ |
| 21 | Soon as soon as he starts talking about cars yap yap yap yap yap yap he does n't stop . |
| 22 | Because you know what he 's like when he gets talking , he talks so much he just cuts all your hair off Ye yeah it 's all cut on the sides and cos , cos they 're all taught to finger dry and what have you , he does all this and what have you . |
| 23 | Someone like James for , how long did that go on for , for about a month , when he could n't he stop talking about me all the time it was sort of like , you know , I like this , you know what I mean , he was talking |
| 24 | He began talking out aloud , to himself . |
| 25 | He began talking to her about birdsong , about bird music , really . |
| 26 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 27 | He began talking in his familiar rapid-fire voice . |
| 28 | Then , some 16 years later , he began talking about his experiences . |
| 29 | He began talking to me : blah blah Killer blah blah Women . |
| 30 | In early 1961 he began talking about the Algerian problem as though it were settled , using terms very similar to those which he later used in his memoirs . |