Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [be] talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who was the lady you were talking to who you knew ? |
| 2 | Er it sort of goes in four ways I mean the fathers talk more directly than the mothers whether or not it 's a boy or a girl they 're talking to . |
| 3 | It was as if he had suddenly been made to remember just what sort of girl he was talking to . |
| 4 | A detective-constable who was talking to me later told me that it 's one of the Whistler 's trademarks . |
| 5 | This is George Roxborough of expense account fame I 'm talking to ? |
| 6 | Carrie got up and kissed her father before she left the ward , followed by her husband who was talking to Nellie . |
| 7 | ‘ At the moment we are talking to TV , radio and even some promoters in the States about us doing work there . ’ |
| 8 | Well we , at the erm school play we were talking to , who did you say , Mr ? |
| 9 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 10 | My order will not succeed as an order unless the person I am talking to is obliged to clean their boots ( condition 3 ) , and I have the right and the power to make them do so ( condition 4 ) . |
| 11 | I just try to make sure I look at the person I 'm talking to , and show them I 'm interested . |
| 12 | Yes , I 'm the brick wall you 're talking to . |
| 13 | They might only be minor , but to the person you 're talking to it 's a major decision . |
| 14 | There 's only if the person you 're talking to thinks you do n't care , well I mean they 're not you know they 're not going to think very much of you are they ? |
| 15 | Finally , it helps if you like the person you are talking to . |
| 16 | It 's faster , more revealing , gives you a feel for the person you are talking to and the chance to encourage off-the-record remarks . |
| 17 | This is readily demonstrated by asking him to close his eyes and answer questions such as ‘ is there a picture on the wall on the left ? ’ or ‘ what colour are the eyes of the person you are talking to ? ’ |
| 18 | Look at person you are talking to . |
| 19 | yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before |
| 20 | And apparently at speech day she was talking to s do you know she had the cheek to say to me she had the cheek to tell somebody to say that I should at least have the decency to go out with someone who 's half looking , half good looking . |
| 21 | She had that feeling of insult often felt at a party when the person one is talking to focuses his gaze on people round about all the time , searching for someone more interesting , powerful or sexy to talk to . |
| 22 | Again this is a common and ‘ normal ’ reaction , but many people feel so ashamed of thoughts like these that they hardly dare express them unless they feel safe enough to do so and trust the person they are talking to sufficiently for such a revelation to seem acceptable . |
| 23 | Lots of people turn off as soon as the person they 're talking to reveals an interest in or opinion on something they dislike or disagree with . |
| 24 | Every now and again people would step neatly aside while the person they were talking to was sick on the floor . |
| 25 | Any systematic variation must have been the result of the reaction of passers-by to the apparent social class of the person they were talking to , since all other variables were held constant . |
| 26 | Turn your back they 're talking to you say they 've been nasty and then they come back and talk to you . |
| 27 | ‘ The mate who was with him said one minute he was talking to Tony at the side of the road and the next he was flat on his back . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One night he was talking to his father in the dining room . |
| 30 | ‘ It was the dog I was talking to ! ’ |