Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] be talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In trying to articulate what she felt so strongly , Clare had forgotten that she was talking to a very sick woman . |
| 2 | ‘ That dog 's half mad , ’ Tom said to Willie but found that he was talking to the air for Willie was several yards behind , still trying to keep up , his cheeks flushed with the effort . |
| 3 | Have I remembered to do that ? ) sometimes kindly people try so hard to get their message across that one would think that they were talking to a mentally backward five-year-old ! |
| 4 | Graham started to smile , though he thought the joke itself might be in rather poor taste , but then he was aware of Sara turning quickly , putting her glass on the mantelpiece and looking straight at him , coming closer , her face set in strange hard lines , eyes bright , taking him by the elbow and turning her head as if to emphasise that she was talking to Graham , ignoring Slater , saying , " You do dance , do n't you ? " |
| 5 | Managing director David Crisp says that he is talking to three potential manufacturers at the moment , one of which is presumably Amstrad . |
| 6 | OfficePower for Unix currently only supports ICL 's long time relational database partner , Ingres , though there are plans to bring the Oracle Corp offering into play , and the company confirms that it is talking to other companies too . |
| 7 | Erm , current speaker will next speaker by name , so when I speak to you and I call your name , you know that I am talking to you . |
| 8 | We may recognize their mannerisms in ourselves or find that we are talking to our children in just the tones that they talked to us . |
| 9 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 10 | so obviously she 's assuming that she 's talking to Elvis , but er , she ca n't prove it |
| 11 | I knew that you were talking to him about something |
| 12 | Just to make sure that they think that you 're talking to them |
| 13 | ‘ But now that you 're tucked up in here , none of your mates will notice that you 're talking to us . |
| 14 | Amstrad Plc has confirmed that it is talking to the company about taking on at least one of the products . |
| 15 | Mr Millan said that he was talking to UK authorities and expressed some optimism the matter could be resolved , although EC officials believe the tougher rules could lead to new battles with the Treasury . |