Example sentences of "she was talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , ’ said Milsom patiently , ‘ what was the doctor doing while she was talking ? ’ |
| 2 | Luke had disappeared while she was talking to Godfrey . |
| 3 | ‘ She was talking about the cherries , ’ he told Michael . |
| 4 | She was talking with the ease of total emotional exhaustion . |
| 5 | She was talking to him as if he was grown-up and it made him feel uncomfortable . |
| 6 | Then she was talking to the woman . |
| 7 | When she was talking about Gina 's marital infidelities she had called her ‘ your old French stick ’ . |
| 8 | And when she was talking about the clash between her feelings and her principles , she had been desperately serious . |
| 9 | She was talking to me just now , before you put your oar in . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't need you no more ! ’ she said to herself and even she was not sure whether it was Simon , her Dad , or those old , frayed fantasies she was talking about . |
| 11 | Mungo nodded , though he had not the faintest idea what she was talking about . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She stared into the camera as if she was talking to it . |
| 14 | Here again , she knew what she was talking about . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A man who had been sitting silently by on the wooden form got to his feet , his hand outstretched , and he said , ‘ There ! take it ; and if you want to pay it back put it in the voluntary box she was talking about . ’ |
| 17 | She was talking very softly and I yelled at her ‘ Do please talk so that I can understand you ’ in a very irritated voice . |
| 18 | He did n't answer , just went on staring at her as if she was talking gibberish . |
| 19 | But she was talking into his shoulder . |
| 20 | He had a strong desire to get to know her better , and yet here she was talking of marriage ! |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , but she 's not hurt at all , she was talking to Mother Francis and to her father . |
| 22 | Constance heard Louise on the telephone and knew she was talking to Nora . |
| 23 | The Sandrat had no idea what she was talking about . |
| 24 | ‘ She just sat on my bed and she was talking . |
| 25 | Rella used to tell me stories , about places she 'd been , only sometimes I thought she meant herself and it turned out it was her mother she was talking about . |
| 26 | She hated anyone listening when she was talking to Alice . |
| 27 | Oddly enough , it was not during one of these silences but while she was talking that her eyes closed and her shallow breathing became deeper . |
| 28 | I 'd passed that fella on the road an' when I looked back she was talking to him ; then when I turned the cart into the alley the next minute , she was flying past , almost throwing the child at me . |
| 29 | She was talking now as if the child were not present , but the child was present , and she spoke up : ‘ An hour a month ? |
| 30 | She was talking about you on the phone recently . |