Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] talking " in BNC.

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1 PEOPLE in the West are talking about traps built into the proposed DDR travel liberalisation law .
2 They may reach different conclusions , but they do not pre-empt the discussion by claiming either that one side is talking nonsense or that the other side is talking from a position of impossible disadvantage through lack of faith .
3 They may reach different conclusions , but they do not pre-empt the discussion by claiming either that one side is talking nonsense or that the other side is talking from a position of impossible disadvantage through lack of faith .
4 Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time .
5 Granddad 's talking to you
6 Just a minute mummy 's talking to me .
7 It remains true that in Tate 's criticism and since ( for no advance has been made in this quarter ) ‘ rhythm ’ and ‘ movement ’ are wholly impressionistic — you hear what the critic is talking about , or else you do n't .
8 The Tibetan was talking in loud self-congratulatory tones about the religious statues and paintings that he 'd smuggled across the border and sold in India ; how time and again he 'd outwitted the border police , with silver , musk and contraband of every sort .
9 The stranger was talking , the voice was metallic and occasionally high : The tone , Flavia thought she was able to discern , was worldly : a worldly French voice .
10 The stranger was talking with vivacity ; she was eating little and without attention ; her wine-glasses were untouched .
11 It was an enraging affectation , worthy of an Oxford undergraduate , especially as Charlie might do it in the middle of a conversation , as he had done recently at a college gig : the Union President was talking to him when Charlie 's hands reached into his side pocket , the book was extracted and opened , and the man 's eyes popped in disbelief as Charlie imbibed a beakerful of the warm South .
12 Her agent was talking somewhere on the air waves .
13 There was a gap while Cobalt was talking and all they heard was Rain 's murmur of interest .
14 After a while , however , Pound 's constant and insistent proselytizing began to annoy him , and he reverts to his usual more careful and elaborate prose while explaining ( as so many of Pound 's correspondents did ) that he did not at all understand what Pound was talking about .
15 Gurder was talking to the Thing in a low voice .
16 It was encouraging to receive a letter from the Hastings Urban Conservation project a few months later saying , ‘ The Borough Council are talking in positive terms about the future of the building …
17 Old friends from the village were talking quietly among themselves , and I noticed the awful Pumblechook trying to catch my eye , as he drank brandy and swallowed large pieces of cake .
18 The following is an extract of conversation in which an experienced neighbourhood constable is talking while out on his beat about discretion , in which its exercise is linked to both the development of local knowledge and the possession of interactive skills :
19 while the editor is talking to us .
20 You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ?
21 The South is talking not of aid and advice , but of a new economic order , with just and equal sharing in trade , finance and technology .
22 The young lady is talking as if she 's a member of the family because she 's paying so much over there .
23 That will mean the sort of support for groups that this campaign is talking about .
24 The guard was talking to Evans as Morgan glared at the screen , then took out a cigar and clamped his teeth on it .
25 ’ Someone in a bar was talking about Ardakke in connection with Gharr the Gherpotean ’ .
26 He was not in the clubhouse , where the Lord Lieutenant was on the telephone to Downing Street , nor at the police emergency centre , where the Chief Constable was talking to the duty officer in the Cabinet Office Briefing Room .
27 The boy was talking riddles .
28 But this girl was talking this is a few years back now .
29 As he said this , he noticed that Cowslip had joined them and that Strawberry was talking to him quietly .
30 " Why , as a matter of interest , " said Martin , calmly , as though the discussion up to this point had been quite unreliable , " did you have so many children , Candida ? " and Mrs Denham , strangely , took off her glasses , and frowned , and began to speak as though she had indeed up to this point been talking nonsense .
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