Example sentences of "he be talking [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
2 | ‘ How long has he been talking to you like that ? ’ |
3 | So whom had he been talking to ? |
4 | He stared at the table as if he were talking to himself . |
5 | ‘ No Villanuova has ever had a job , that 's why , ’ he replied as if he were talking to a child . |
6 | When he spoke again , it was as though he were talking to himself . |
7 | Golding 's voice sank to a murmur , as if he were talking to himself rather than Derek . |
8 | The hon. Gentleman is treating me as though he were talking to someone from Louisiana and wanting to finish the sentence before it has been started . |
9 | Do n't pass between the speechreader and the person he is talking with ; go round them unobtrusively so that you do not break eye contact . |
10 | On that video he is talking with diarrhoea in his mouth . ’ |
11 | He flirts , he touches , he gazes deep into the eyes of the person he is talking to , no one is immune to his immense charm . |
12 | Managing director David Crisp says that he is talking to three potential manufacturers at the moment , one of which is presumably Amstrad . |
13 | Often meetings with ‘ advisers ’ can be counter productive and it will be desirable to bring you and , say , Mr [ Chief Executive ] into the picture so that the potential purchaser feels he is talking to a principal . |
14 | Such as on pgs 37–38 where he is talking to Louis and Mike . |
15 | He is talking to me as if I could be a partner in his business : he is drawing me in . |
16 | And he is talking of fact , not I fiction . ) |
17 | Moreover , the word ‘ notion ’ is not meant to suggest that he is talking of an idea in our minds ; he is concerned rather with that actual feature of good things which is picked out by the word ‘ good ’ . |
18 | Within moments , he is talking about Brecht 's THREEPENNY OPERA pointing out how Brecht invented an abstract London , not in order to escape from the reality of the city , but to create a generalized framework which could be relevant to audiences in many different places . |
19 | It was my philosophy professor , a native of the Antilles , who recalled the fact to me one day : ‘ Whenever you hear anyone abuse the Jews , pay attention because he is talking about you ’ . |
20 | Mr Solarz 's knack for generating publicity , his network of contacts in Asia , his influence with the administration and his reputation for knowing what he is talking about — rare enough among congressmen who spout on foreign affairs — give him clout . |
21 | More than any of the other major characters in the great story from Genesis to Kings Moses has a tendency to know what he is talking about . |
22 | The storyteller knows what he is talking about . |
23 | Another tribute came from an independent source , and a man who knows what he is talking about . |
24 | He seems sensible and rather nice and he knows what he is talking about . |
25 | The board master performs this service on a voluntary basis and the prerequisite of being board master is knowing the fishing thoroughly ; because he has to tell new guests where to go , how to get there , which path to take , which bog to avoid , where not to fall in — so he really must know what he is talking about . |
26 | The author insists at several points that he is talking about both basic and applied research , although he would exclude technology . |
27 | I would like to point out that when your Alexander teacher talks about ‘ unreliable feelings ’ he is talking about sensory feelings and not emotions or intuition ( a point that has confused many people in the past ) . |
28 | At first you might find it difficult to understand what he is talking about , because most of us are not even aware that these tensions exist . |
29 | He is talking about senior managers at Thames Water . |
30 | Any evidence , whether actual or a product of your subconscious , comes from you yourself and is not simply given to you by another person who might or might not know what he is talking about . |