Example sentences of "when [pron] [be] talking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And he went to the degree of saying , when I pressed him , how are we going to stay in this business ; he said , Albert , for all I know right now when I am talking to you , we could be finished with the business ; I do n't know . ’ |
| 2 | An when I am talking to meself in poetry I talk , |
| 3 | It had seemed quite clear when I was talking to Aunt Kit . |
| 4 | When I was talking to Eric anything seemed possible . |
| 5 | ‘ I glimpsed you out of the corner of my eye when I was talking to the porter . ’ |
| 6 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ When I was talking to him , he had this habit of looking over my head and I wondered whether what I was saying was going in , but he was digesting it and seeing how he could turn it round to his way of doing things . |
| 8 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 9 | And when I was talking to her she said , oh well you should give her something , but not to send her to sleep and make her drowsy . |
| 10 | No , it 's , when I was talking to these |
| 11 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 12 | What did you say to me on he phone when I was talking to Tracey ? |
| 13 | When I was talking to him I asked him what changes he saw taking place in the computing world . |
| 14 | And stop that damn blinking and twitching when I 'm talking to you , boy . |
| 15 | ‘ Will you please look at me when I 'm talking to you , ’ Ashi fumed . |
| 16 | " Do n't you dare walk off when I 'm talking to you , Timothy Amsterdam . |
| 17 | Take your finger out of your ear when I 'm talking to you ! |
| 18 | Take your finger out of your ear when I 'm talking to you ! |
| 19 | Take your finger out of your ear when I 'm talking to you ! |
| 20 | And when I 'm talking to myself I say what a clever fellow you are ! |
| 21 | But I always seem to end up lecturing when I 'm talking to him , you know instead of just saying , I was saying I want them all to be independent , you know ! |
| 22 | Yes , and one of the great ironies is that when I 'm talking to students about the nature of history , one of the first things I try and say to them is ‘ Look , do n't have this idea that there 's a great bundle of documents lying in an attic , and this is the way that history works , that people make a sensational discovery and then they write a book about it . |
| 23 | Look at me when you 're talking to me I ca n't hear you . |
| 24 | right , and what you say is , as for the , you 've got to stack you on er and when you 're talking to them , right , you 've got to use these words , that 's what I was saying to you earlier , what do you prefer ? |
| 25 | I thought afterwards I bet that tape would run out when you 're talking to and wo n't be able to turn it over . |
| 26 | But I , does but when you say that now though , cos I , he slagged Kirsty off to me , he just said oh she 's just really pretentious and she 'll , she 'll talk to you and then as soon as someone cooler comes in the room she 'll turn round and she 'll completely ignore you and you 're left and she 'll do that like at a dinner party or something and you 're left standing there feeling a real id you know , you know that feeling do n't you when you 're talking to someone and suddenly they desert you and you 're all on your own in a room ? |
| 27 | Yeah but when you 're talking to somebody official you speak posh . |
| 28 | I did n't like the feeling ; it brought it home to me how much you are judged by how you look , all the time , and how weird it feels when you are talking to this compere , and all the time you know he is n't listening to a word you are saying , just looking down your cleavage . |
| 29 | When you are talking to a teacher in school , you speak and act in a different way from when you are talking to your friends out of school . |
| 30 | Again , now that he is a man he is expected to observe those admittedly very minimal standards of decency which apply to excretion ( for instance , not urinating on someone 's feet when you are talking to them ) , and so to this very limited extent we can speak of initiation being like toilet-training . |