Example sentences of "[noun prp] [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 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 .
5 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 .
6 David remembers talking to Isaac Asimov , the science-fiction writer , about God and so on .
7 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 . ’
8 Plumfield continued talking in a nasal voice and she decided that he must be a demon to live with .
9 Kopyion did n't reply and the Archon continued talking .
10 Berndt stopped talking .
11 Would Liam stop talking crap .
12 Then Sebastian started talking in terms of giving up his job , and Leith had something else to worry about .
13 Jane kept talking to him , but it sounded remarkably like David
14 Major Braithwaite and Julia started talking about horses .
15 Vern started talking .
16 There was nothing more to say on that and so that the Shah started talking quietly about Iran .
17 She wanted Lily to stop talking .
18 The DUP 's attitude to future talks is unambiguous — either the Dublin government ‘ deals with ’ articles 2 and 3 of the constitution and John Hume stops talking to Gerry Adams or Ian Paisley will not be at the conference table .
19 Faraday began talking of magnetic fields ( and you 'll remember the school experiments with iron filings around bar magnets ) .
20 The servants brought platters of over-cooked , rather rancid meat , garnished with herbs , and once they withdrew and the wine circulated , Melford began talking at the top of his voice about sending boys to do men 's work .
21 As it was , Lili chatted easily and Robert timed his eating to synchronise with her fluency ; when Lili stopped talking to eat he carried on , not in the same vein but sufficiently in harmony with her style not to upset the balance of conviviality .
22 Like the woman in the fairy story , once Ali started talking he did not stop .
23 Lorraine Herbert , of Flaxton , Yorkshire , was intrigued when her young daughter Joanne started talking about her friend , Dohti .
24 Mr Loveitt said as Jess finished talking .
25 Politicians in Delhi keep talking of a political solution .
26 Agnosticism was n't much help either , not when God kept talking to her .
27 Mum and Connie keep talking about it , but they do n't do anything .
28 Christine stopped talking , wringing one hand through the other .
29 I hoped so , and I was going to take the risk of finding out , but then Bill started talking about your once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel , and I thought about the fact that I 'm thirty-four and you 're twenty-two … ’
30 Erm occupation when you , you were talking about travel when , he 'd told you what he was doing and he was associated with an American company or the parent company was in America erm you mentioned about travel , Steve started talking about car and miles he drives and he also mentioned flying but you never explored at all really the , the flying side .
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