Example sentences of "was [adv] talking [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was soon talking on the telephone to Engelberger in Danbury , Connecticut . |
| 2 | By the time they got there he was already talking to the watchman . |
| 3 | The following day , with the barricades still in place but support for the insurrection eroding , de Gaulle was already talking about the crisis in the past tense . |
| 4 | They 're gon na catch me ’ and he was just talking to the film crew and not the camera and was not conscious of the fact there was probably 14 million people watching it . |
| 5 | oh and we were jus well we just sort of cha , I was just talking about the weather , she was saying how cold it was . |
| 6 | He was always talking about the board he was having shaped back in Sydney . |
| 7 | ‘ He was always talking about the past but I wanted to introduce him to the present . |
| 8 | William suggested , because she 'd just bought Mary Ann Evans 's and was always talking about the trouble she was having finding good staff . |
| 9 | She was still talking about the snake that lived under the water tank when Tom swung the wheel and purred rapidly up the hospital driveway , and if his face was still set in a grim frown and he did n't seem to be listening to her words at all , she should n't have minded , because the object of the exercise had been to entertain Faye , not him . |
| 10 | On entering the house , the defendant said that he was unhappy at Paulette 's having married Zaidie and that he was going to obtain a copy of the marriage certificate and would shoot Paulette if she had married while she was still talking to the defendant ( the date of the marriage was actually 10 December 1986 ) . |
| 11 | About half of the sixty-five guests had wandered through into the lecture hall , but since Anthea was due to give the address and she was still talking to the professor , there was time to spare . |
| 12 | They did n't give any details about the Leeds match ( or I may have missed them as I was simultaneously talking on the phone ) . |
| 13 | When Tormey cites the art of acting as an example of representational behaviour , he was really talking about the style of acting first attributed to the famous English eighteenth-century actor David Garrick , acting which demanded not the expression of emotion but an accomplished technique by which ‘ natural ’ expressions of real life became distilled on stage by artifice . |
| 14 | I was recently talking to the mother of a four year old boy about his progress at learning his letters , when I realized just how responsible and vulnerable she felt about his lack of progress , and that started me thinking about the educational process and the pressures that we put on ourselves and our children to succeed . |