Example sentences of "he [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 2 | ‘ How long has he been talking to you like that ? ’ |
| 3 | So whom had he been talking to ? |
| 4 | He stared at the table as if he were talking to himself . |
| 5 | ‘ No Villanuova has ever had a job , that 's why , ’ he replied as if he were talking to a child . |
| 6 | When he spoke again , it was as though he were talking to himself . |
| 7 | Golding 's voice sank to a murmur , as if he were talking to himself rather than Derek . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman is treating me as though he were talking to someone from Louisiana and wanting to finish the sentence before it has been started . |
| 9 | He were talking . |
| 10 | Within moments , he is talking about Brecht 's THREEPENNY OPERA pointing out how Brecht invented an abstract London , not in order to escape from the reality of the city , but to create a generalized framework which could be relevant to audiences in many different places . |
| 11 | It looks back to Lanman as well as to Eliot 's other Sanskrit teacher , the ex-anthropologist , Woods , who had written that to the Hindu , ‘ Logically and temporally , the word seems to precede its idea and its meaning : a man thinks , the Hindu would say , because he is talking . |
| 12 | It was my philosophy professor , a native of the Antilles , who recalled the fact to me one day : ‘ Whenever you hear anyone abuse the Jews , pay attention because he is talking about you ’ . |
| 13 | Mr Solarz 's knack for generating publicity , his network of contacts in Asia , his influence with the administration and his reputation for knowing what he is talking about — rare enough among congressmen who spout on foreign affairs — give him clout . |
| 14 | More than any of the other major characters in the great story from Genesis to Kings Moses has a tendency to know what he is talking about . |
| 15 | The storyteller knows what he is talking about . |
| 16 | Another tribute came from an independent source , and a man who knows what he is talking about . |
| 17 | He seems sensible and rather nice and he knows what he is talking about . |
| 18 | He is a veteran interviewee , yet somehow gives the impression that he is talking from the heart . |
| 19 | The board master performs this service on a voluntary basis and the prerequisite of being board master is knowing the fishing thoroughly ; because he has to tell new guests where to go , how to get there , which path to take , which bog to avoid , where not to fall in — so he really must know what he is talking about . |
| 20 | The author insists at several points that he is talking about both basic and applied research , although he would exclude technology . |
| 21 | And he is talking of fact , not I fiction . ) |
| 22 | I would like to point out that when your Alexander teacher talks about ‘ unreliable feelings ’ he is talking about sensory feelings and not emotions or intuition ( a point that has confused many people in the past ) . |
| 23 | At first you might find it difficult to understand what he is talking about , because most of us are not even aware that these tensions exist . |
| 24 | He is talking about senior managers at Thames Water . |
| 25 | Do n't pass between the speechreader and the person he is talking with ; go round them unobtrusively so that you do not break eye contact . |
| 26 | Any evidence , whether actual or a product of your subconscious , comes from you yourself and is not simply given to you by another person who might or might not know what he is talking about . |
| 27 | He is talking about social ecology on Tuesday 12 May at Lady Mitchell Hall , Sidgwick Avenue , Cambridge ; on 14 May at Bristol University Students ' Union in Queens Road ; on Monday 18 May at the Beckett Lecture Theatre of Leeds University in Woodhouse Lane ; and on Thursday 21 May at St James ' Church , Piccadilly , in London . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know what he is talking about . |
| 29 | He flirts , he touches , he gazes deep into the eyes of the person he is talking to , no one is immune to his immense charm . |
| 30 | He is talking directly to us and we do feel sick . |