Example sentences of "[vb past] talking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , children in our classroom practice sample spent a high proportion of their time working when they were engaged in tasks which involved talking to the class , talking to the teacher , construction , listening or collaboration . |
| 2 | And that involved talking to the client to find out what it was they wanted ? |
| 3 | He took everything in his stride … the theatre was quite secondary to his interest in rugby ; he never stopped talking about the game ! … |
| 4 | Whitlock caught up with Mobuto but remained discreetly in the background while he finished talking to the Chief of Protocol . |
| 5 | But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They began talking about the future , and later made love once more . |
| 8 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 9 | At 11am they said the baby was in distress and the six people in the room all began talking about the possibility of a Caesarean . |
| 10 | In early 1961 he began talking about the Algerian problem as though it were settled , using terms very similar to those which he later used in his memoirs . |
| 11 | The moment passed , her mother began talking about the late roses in her flowerbeds and Rachel was just thinking she 'd got away with not mentioning David Markham , when her father said , ‘ Talking of OBEX , we wanted to check the date of the Family Day with you . ’ |
| 12 | After a period spent talking about the Legion and what we thought it was going to be like , he turned to me , shook my hand and wished me good luck . |
| 13 | Sometime after we began work he started talking about the King 's Cross railway station fire that killed so many and about the fact that he was on an underground train going through the station at that time . |
| 14 | Defence Secretary Dick Cheney was so cock-a-hoop about the first day in Somalia he started talking about the pull-out . |
| 15 | And the time came when all round the world people started talking about the Costakis collection with reverence . |
| 16 | Then Martinho started talking about the seminary journal . |
| 17 | So even someone as obviously corrupt as Richard Nixon , people started talking about the new Nixon , new Nixon the statesman . |
| 18 | Okay this er this lecture is called multiple government and the federal system and it flows directly from the last lecture when I started talking about the er the constitution and about the principles and the values that erm form the American system . |
| 19 | Maybe without fully recognising it , the government has , in fact , started talking to the ANC — for if there is one thing Mr Mandela has made clear throughout his long incarceration , it is his unwavering allegiance to the movement , whose foremost leader he remains . |
| 20 | We then p positioned ourselves further into the room er P C obviously was still with me behind the shield erm once we 'd got ourselves in a in a better position , as far as we were concerned , P C then started talking to the people , erm who were in the bed . |
| 21 | Just move onto the next one then media trainer I started talking to the training school about doing some training for officers it started with C I D cos you often find that a D S is an acting D I and when we asked them to do an interview about a crime or incident they say we 've not done radio interviews before , so Phil has er supported it and we 're gon na run some sort of training scheme one day courses for them . |
| 22 | Hell , I was meant to be looking after him and then you both started talking in the room next to mine . |
| 23 | He just rolled neatly over on his side and commenced talking to the Big Man . |
| 24 | ‘ They kept talking about the Magna Carta . |
| 25 | I went to see my therapist and he kept talking about the bank manager . |
| 26 | ‘ So I checked into Park West , had dinner , got talking to the barman , said what I was after . |
| 27 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 28 | The women avoided talking to the Chief Steward , or among themselves , about the detail of the job . |
| 29 | When I was young she used to come up to my mother 's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady . |
| 30 | Mr Major just grinned and continued talking to the children , from Dulwich College , south London . |