Example sentences of "[verb] talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've enjoyed talking to you . |
| 2 | er , this had that night er but , one , in one bit it said he said that night they di fa found that Melissico was n't enjoyed talking to them long af till long after the stars came out . |
| 3 | and then suddenly from the other end there 's this like , cos we , it 's like a big room , it 's the other end of the room all the dealers there , and er anyway and er and suddenly I hear , and then someone 's like saying talking , they 're all , somebody 's like mi microphone and starts talking to them about er what 's happening in the market , things like that blah blah blah blah blah , and this means blah blah blah blah so watch out for blah blah blah and I thought it 's like living in a different world , it 's amazing . |
| 4 | Everyone starts talking at once — some of them shouting and others just laughing . |
| 5 | But Svidrigailov ignores the question and starts talking about politics . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyone who starts talking about reviewing territorial frontiers is consciously moving towards confrontation , and incidentally , not only with local significance , ’ he warned . |
| 7 | If she starts talking about sexual matters they may jump in hastily , saying , ‘ Do n't talk about that ’ without explaining why they are disturbed by what she has said . |
| 8 | ‘ So if somebody starts talking about racism when they see our work , that 's very good . |
| 9 | These are passages where the author suddenly starts talking about what ‘ we did ’ . |
| 10 | When Pino starts talking about his ideal woman we know we 're more likely in a fantasy land than a green ginger one . ’ |
| 11 | We 've got to keep him quiet before he starts talking about us to his new friends . ’ |
| 12 | If anyone starts talking about sex or looking at the Indian women , someone always says , ‘ Riddled with diseases I 'm sure . ’ |
| 13 | Erm at the bottom of the page then , George starts talking about Martha , Martha 's father and it gets very funny this bit , very naughty . |
| 14 | He then starts talking about Martha 's father , who was not going to die apparently . |
| 15 | I knew I 'd have to sit on my hands before I came here , but what if some sex offender starts talking about this or that ? |
| 16 | Having apparently made a good case ( to wit , the UK now spends nearly two per cent less per head on education than in 1980 ) it starts talking about education . |
| 17 | WHEN THE PLANT OPERATOR STARTS talking about ‘ zero defects ’ , the price of non-conformance' and ‘ corrective action teams . ’ |
| 18 | Soon as soon as he starts talking about cars yap yap yap yap yap yap he does n't stop . |
| 19 | When we go to see if the bathroom is free , a young guy I ai n't seen before starts talking in the corridor . |
| 20 | I do n't enjoy talking about Susan much . |
| 21 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 22 | We must have sat talking for nearly fifteen minutes , in this absurd stilted way . |
| 23 | ‘ The first sign of madness , ’ joke people who have been caught talking to themselves , confident of course that it is not . |
| 24 | Sometimes she tried talking to him about India , with a genuine impulse to do what she could . |
| 25 | He had studied and pondered the case , and was immersed in it ; he tried talking to both Marco and Eddie , and pursues Marco for the promise that could save Eddie 's life . |
| 26 | She loves talking to people , and keeping in touch with what is going on in their lives . |
| 27 | Forget talking to your plants … if you want them to look their best try a bit of good old fashioned pampering . |
| 28 | I will keeping talking to this stupid machine ! |
| 29 | Thus , children in our classroom practice sample spent a high proportion of their time working when they were engaged in tasks which involved talking to the class , talking to the teacher , construction , listening or collaboration . |
| 30 | And that involved talking to the client to find out what it was they wanted ? |