Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] talking " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Has someone been talking to you ?
2 Someone 's talking to the other girls .
3 you can do it because as you read through your notes as someone 's talking to you in the lecture you will be saying , Yeah of course of course .
4 Someone was talking about the accident last night in the saloon — word soon gets round on the Island .
5 When were watching television and nobody 's talking much there 's not much point is that ?
6 So do you leave it switched on even when nobody 's talking ?
7 I mean somebody 's talking to you about something different .
8 Imagine yourself being in a crowd where English is being spoken , but suddenly you sense that somebody is talking in another language .
9 I s I heard something about somebody was talking to me about it a little while ago .
10 Somebody was talking about that .
11 So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ .
12 as a whole one is talking about something like 70 million small mammals and birds killed by domestic cats every year .
13 Receiving and writing messages from the spirit world ( or the subconscious , depending on which occultist one is talking to ) .
14 The fact that there is no sound or that no one is talking sometimes needs indicating .
15 But these ‘ less-eligibility ’ arguments are surely at their weakest when applied to food , and virtually untenable when one is talking about people incarcerated for fourteen years or more .
16 Arguments about absenteeism ( not borne out incidentally by the surviving wage-books ) are hardly relevant when one is talking about piece-work in large firms .
17 There are particular signals which enable speakers to get into — and to get out of — conversations , to pass the turn to somebody else , varying according to whom one is talking to and in what circumstances .
18 To some extent , it is also intuitively satisfying to suggest that what one is talking about always comes before what one has to say about it .
19 She had that feeling of insult often felt at a party when the person one is talking to focuses his gaze on people round about all the time , searching for someone more interesting , powerful or sexy to talk to .
20 Worst of all , what if my mind goes completely blank with panic and I ca n't even remember who I am , never mind who 's coming on next and what the hell this one is talking about now ?
21 If one is talking about second adult rebates , of course it is true that we need to try to simplify the proposals , to overcome the administrative difficulties brought to our attention by local authority associations .
22 If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed .
23 It is easy enough to hold an opinion , but hard work to actually know what one is talking about .
24 One 's for listening and one 's talking into .
25 The worst thing of all was that no one was talking .
26 One was talking in Arabic .
27 I mean if one was talking about great tits in China , you 'd have to say there are two kinds of great tits .
28 Oh they put it out in to see if anybody 's talking about him do they ?
29 Did n't know what anybody was talking about !
30 It is an illustration of the way in which ‘ The Thing ’ works by substituting nonsense for sense , so that presently everybody is talking nonsense , and nobody can talk sense any more .
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