Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] talking to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disc-jockey put on Earth , Wind and Fire and Olivia was whisked away by a young columnist from Amritsar ; I was left talking to a rather bulbous Congress MP . |
| 2 | She was seen talking to a man outside the house by a neighbour at 1pm , then vanished without trace . |
| 3 | This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ . |
| 4 | Art raised his eyes to the receiving desk , she was standing she was standing talking to a young man . |
| 5 | He was sitting talking to a middle-aged , bearded man dressed in a curiously outdated suit which he was wearing shirtless , over a vest . |