Example sentences of "[coord] talking to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was not pleased when he came back early or unexpectedly from the hospital and found that we were out drinking or talking to girls . |
| 2 | At some museums interpretation is offered , in whole or in part , through people in role carrying out craft work or demonstrations , or talking to visitors . |
| 3 | But where television-viewing is virtually unrestricted there is little time for reading , imaginative or realistic play , for making things or talking to parents . |
| 4 | She longed to be close to her mother , or talking to Louise or cycling up the drive towards the grim yews of Seaton Cramer Hall and the warm welcome of Miss Hatherby . |
| 5 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 6 | As the rest of the retinue began to come , straggling , into the yard , Groa dismissed her steward and went to her rooms at the other end of the hall , where Anghared , Ferteth 's wife , was sewing stockings and talking to Eochaid 's sister Maire , who was teaching one of Sinna 's girls how to embroider . |
| 7 | In Pakistan , ‘ if you see a girl with her Dupatta pushed up and her limbs in a relaxed position , standing and talking to boys , people passing will go on staring and start whispering among themselves — ‘ Where is her modesty ! ’ or , ‘ what is going on there ! ’ |
| 8 | Finding out the answers to these questions is best done by going out and talking to parents and others . |
| 9 | ‘ I was chasing around , getting petitions signed , writing letters , running round the schools and talking to parents , but I think if you do n't pressurize , you are not going to get anywhere , ’ she said . |
| 10 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 11 | After pouring the tea and talking to Yanto for five minutes about nothing in particular , she turned to her husband . |
| 12 | The police have been searching the site for clues , and talking to eye witnesses . |
| 13 | You can bring some variety and social contact into your life by simply going out and talking to people . |
| 14 | To spend her days reading and writing and finding out more and talking to people , and to spend no time at all trying to outwit awful people like Mother Clare . |
| 15 | ‘ Coming down here and talking to people is better than just looking at boards in a Jobcentre , ’ he said . |
| 16 | It was almost as if , after years of stolidly predictable behaviour , an old and respected great-uncle had declared himself to be a Buddhist or a Muslim or the follower of some obscure Eastern mystic , and , instead of keeping it to himself , insisted on dressing up in a variety of different-coloured kaftans and talking to people loudly about The Meaning of Life at drinks parties . |
| 17 | No-one visiting Guatemala and talking to people from its majority Indian population could fail to see the psychological scars . |
| 18 | You start off by asking questions by the if you like and talking to people , getting to know people , getting next to people . |
| 19 | So down the wide staircase she goes , past the oak chest with its bowl of white roses on the half-landing , past the Albers squares , past the dim varnished portrait of a full-bosomed crimson gowned pearl-decked eighteenth-century woman who some take to be an ancestor , though she had in fact come with the house , down through the black and white tiled hall with its marble and gilt claw-legged table strewn with Christmas cards , gloves , and glossy free advertising magazines , and into the broad high first floor drawing-room , where sat Charles , drinking a gin and tonic , which she had expected , and talking to Esther and Alix , which she had not . |
| 20 | As she put her coat on she could hear him rattling about in a conspicuous way with pans and dishes , and talking to Tam . |
| 21 | They 'll be playing live in the BBC 's Maida Vale studios and talking to Campbell about the new album . |
| 22 | That it was she , and talking to Henry Clerval , I now had no doubt . |
| 23 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 24 | There were alcoves with armchairs — two men playing draughts at a table — women with handbags , visitors I suppose , sitting with cups of coffee and talking to men . |
| 25 | BUT talking to Greg , in the trashy splendour of the Palace balcony that afternoon , as the others unload their gear , you 'd occasionally be forgiven for thinking as much . |