Example sentences of "talking to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | If talking to her on the phone does n't work then I 'll have to reconsider my position . ’ |
2 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
3 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
4 | ‘ What were you talking to her for ? ’ |
5 | After talking to her for a while I asked her if she was English . |
6 | I were talking to her for about half an hour . |
7 | He 'd conducted a skilled , sophisticated dinner-table conversation since they 'd begun eating , talking to her with accomplished ease about his business , about life on the island , about his brother Salvo 's wife and new baby . |
8 | Imperceptibly Hamilton had switched from talking to her to the girl who was still staring at her . |
9 | I was talking to her at a women 's group meeting — we were playing records . |
10 | Perhaps talking to her about Rob made him feel that someone was dancing on his own grave . |
11 | Mother took books and crayons and accompanied Susan while she was seated on the lavatory , encouraging and talking to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in it . |
12 | He began talking to her about birdsong , about bird music , really . |
13 | I 've never stopped myself talking to her about anything before , she thought . |
14 | Charlotte had found something that Emily had written , and was talking to her about it . |
15 | She did not have long to brood because Harbury began talking to her about the MacQuillan case . |
16 | I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ? |
17 | No I do n't know what it was but Catherine was t telling me the other day about how erm oh I told you something about that and you t and you t were talking to her about it . |
18 | And I er was talking to her down the lane when Mrs Monday and I asked her how she was and she said oh I 've had a few falls in the house and all . |
19 | The cow lowing and lowing and Mister Johnny talking to her in his soft , bubbly voice , and pulling on the little hooves when they slowly appeared . |
20 | Ruth heard Gran talking to her in the office — which was only a partitioned off slice of the kitchen , so Ruth could hear every word as she stacked the dishwasher . |
21 | But I did n't want to be seen talking to her in the office , so I should have to wait until she got home . |
22 | he was talking to her like seven years old . |
23 | Talking to her like seven years old ? |
24 | She was talking to him as if he was grown-up and it made him feel uncomfortable . |
25 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
26 | Yeah that was so , it was fucking random , I 've never talked to him in my entire life , I ended up , after we all left , talking to him for so long |
27 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
28 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
29 | Henry , before Dent was able to start talking to him about lifts , weather , the Law Society or any of the other things that Dent usually talked about , headed for the stairs . |
30 | Talking to him about it is very painful and very harrowing . |