Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like most successful independent entrepreneurs , Mr McGovern loves talking big about his company . |
| 2 | Sarah stopped talking , and put her hands on her stomach . |
| 3 | When Pino starts talking about his ideal woman we know we 're more likely in a fantasy land than a green ginger one . ’ |
| 4 | The Archdeacon stopped talking instantly and the Dean crossed his long legs . |
| 5 | After the Glasgow gig , the lads got talking to JERRY from the TEENAGE FANCLUB who came back to pay his respects and nick the beer from their rider . |
| 6 | I 've talked to other men who 've fiddled samples , you have to go to course about laws , rules , regulations to do with dust and once lads got talking it comes out how it 's happening . |
| 7 | For the moment , buying almost anything in east Germany apart from the groceries involves talking to the Treuhandanstalt , the trust body charged with privatising the territory 's 8,000 enterprises . |
| 8 | I 've got to go listen it 's been lovely t talk to talk talking to you if you could pop in with a bottle of I wanted to try the new Beaujo If anybody 's got it and they come over , just ring the ring the door bell . |
| 9 | I was disappointed especially once the obstetrician began talking Caesareans and epidurals . |
| 10 | In 1979 , she and Branson began talking about establishing an independent label , which Wilson would head , working under the aegis of Virgin and to be called DinDisc . |
| 11 | She reviewed for the Sunday papers and appeared on television in a programme called Talking After Hours , giving her views on art , morals , current affairs . |
| 12 | They ordered dinner , then conversation turned to the play , and for once Marianne lost centre stage as Josh began talking about his own work and the hopes he had for it . |
| 13 | David remembers talking to Isaac Asimov , the science-fiction writer , about God and so on . |
| 14 | He asked us if we were all well and healthy ; three of the Frenchmen started talking to him and the rest of us giggled and joked in English about this ridiculous figure who appeared to be out of touch with everything we were doing . |
| 15 | He 'd planned this summit carefully , and now the Zen of the entire thing had gone crazy , because just as Dad opened his mouth to start talking blood had started to drip into my lap from my nose as a result of Charlie chucking me into his drum-kit . |
| 16 | Sun , he says , ‘ sat on its remote procedure call laurels too long and did n't advance its Open Network Computing technology until OSF started talking about DCE . ’ |
| 17 | Will he confirm that not only has British Telecom invested — this is what the Opposition keep talking about — £20,000 million in new technology , but it has contributed no less than £1,000 million in corporation tax to the Exchequer ? |
| 18 | Plumfield continued talking in a nasal voice and she decided that he must be a demon to live with . |
| 19 | Kopyion did n't reply and the Archon continued talking . |
| 20 | Berndt stopped talking . |
| 21 | Dreikurs advises parents to restrict talking to friendly conversations and not use it as a disciplinary measure . |
| 22 | A boy began talking with me . |
| 23 | Would Liam stop talking crap . |
| 24 | Parent began talking to parent . |
| 25 | Then Sebastian started talking in terms of giving up his job , and Leith had something else to worry about . |
| 26 | Jane kept talking to him , but it sounded remarkably like David |
| 27 | there 's one for you same as Nicky I 've got , here are , there 's another one , different one to that , there 's Nicola 's , leave 'em there I have n't got a Diana , the Queen Mother and the Queen left talking about my girl , my girl |
| 28 | In the ornate portal of a mansion-block department store an old man with buttoned overcoat and brown burnished shoes stood talking at the rain . |
| 29 | It is rather that he realigns fantasy and fact by using a set of ready-made and entirely artificial rules governing talking animals to explore the workings of a no less unnatural , controlled and rigidly inhuman system . |
| 30 | After a period spent talking about the Legion and what we thought it was going to be like , he turned to me , shook my hand and wished me good luck . |