Example sentences of "they [verb] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knows the woman who cleans for the Sheldrake practice , and the other day , while waiting in the bus shelter , they got talking about Dawn and Robert . |
| 2 | They got talking like , this is when they were on holiday . |
| 3 | I 'm not , I 'm not wiping it off cos I mean , they insist talking with us , it 's , er , that 's what we talk about |
| 4 | When they were ten yards away they stopped talking , and they did n't start again till they were safely behind glass . |
| 5 | When she opened the door , they stopped talking , so she must have been the subject . |
| 6 | Whenever Eugenia or I went near them , they stopped talking . |
| 7 | They stopped talking when Bunny came in , shocked into silence at the expression on his face . |
| 8 | Whenever they stopped talking the muffled sound of the machinery in the workshop seemed to become louder . |
| 9 | They stopped talking when Groa entered , and she could feel their eyes on her back as she stood at the window , watching . |
| 10 | And it was two o'clock when they stopped talking , they stopped having their break ! |
| 11 | No it was two o'clock when they stopped talking . |
| 12 | Immediately they stop talking and look anxiously at the door . |
| 13 | They bring me dogs bones for the dogs and they like talking to my parrot I wish I could get rid of the bleeding thing though . |
| 14 | They began talking about the future , and later made love once more . |
| 15 | But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven . |
| 16 | Once they began talking about their lives and history they had a lot to offer . |
| 17 | ( They disappear talking into the wing . ) |
| 18 | You would wonder how they could eat at all after the amount of time they spent talking about food . ’ |
| 19 | Or as long as they said nothing , I 'd say nothing ; or if they started talking , I 'd say , ‘ Listen , inside you or get about your business . ’ |
| 20 | They started talking with animation , like almost everyone else in the car . |
| 21 | Joanne Menzies arrived quickly and they started talking over a glass of whisky . |
| 22 | Yeah , got a bit boring when they started talking so we walked off . |
| 23 | most people I 've talked to their little lads have been two before they started talking , seems to be very slow |
| 24 | ‘ Hope it 's not that ghost train they keep talking about . ’ |
| 25 | They keep talking about what they call seamless journeys which means you should be able to go from A to B to C without too much problem . |
| 26 | ‘ They kept talking about the Magna Carta . |
| 27 | They kept talking about this creature . |
| 28 | that as peop that as a social crisis develops , people become interested in radical critical ideas and they start talking about how things can be improved . |
| 29 | Yeah , primary I think , roundabout primary four or five , cos that 's when they start talking about it , and that 's where you start getting all the the wrong things told to you in the playground , I mean I know that 's what happened to me . |
| 30 | They start talking about ‘ trampolining ’ which is the art of bouncing through a girl 's tights until you hit home . |