Example sentences of "talking [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last year , at the twentieth anniversary dinner of the first Frazier fight , you got up to speak and you ended up talking for probably ten minutes . |
| 2 | We continued talking for well over an hour , duly keeping the next appointment waiting . |
| 3 | We must have sat talking for nearly fifteen minutes , in this absurd stilted way . |
| 4 | They had stood talking for quite some time , each of them perhaps slightly the worse for wear , and then she had invited him up to her North Oxford home for a night-cap . |
| 5 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 6 | She wished he would stop talking for now he was saying , ‘ I 've been associated with Harrods of London for many years . |
| 7 | Walsh thought that if it was left to the others they would go on talking for ever . |
| 8 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 9 | We sat talking for about an hour while Anna tearfully related how she had recently been ‘ ditched ’ by her lover ( a young man of 23 ) for a girl of 18 . |
| 10 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 11 | Referring expressions fulfil a dual purpose of unifying the text ( they depend upon some of the subject matter remaining the same ) and of economy , because they save us from having to repeat the identity of what we are talking about again and again . |
| 12 | Vocals sometimes come across like a throaty Andrew Eldritch and if this was a new Sisters Of Mercy single they really would be worth talking about again and again . |
| 13 | Vocals sometimes come across like a throaty Andrew Eldritch and if this was a new Sisters Of Mercy single they really would be worth talking about again and again . |
| 14 | Yeah , I bet that 's the men about they were talking about again . |
| 15 | The place everyone 's been talking about lately . |
| 16 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 17 | Now trade officials are talking about yet another deadline in mid-December , it seems as if the EC may at last be ready to play a more active role in liberalising world trade , thanks largely to goading from its energetic new trade commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan . |
| 18 | Where the caring takes place will often decide who does the bulk of the task anyway , and this is a crucial decision which needs talking about well in advance , particularly where ageing parents are concerned . |
| 19 | yeah , so I know what you 're talking about well did n't you say you got the police one the other day ? |
| 20 | All of the foregoing principles apply to any relationship , but we are not talking about just any relationship . |
| 21 | So that 's what flat machines do , they knit , these particular Jacquard and , and that 's what the continentals were good at , it , cos they look , I mean they were far more , we 're so conservative in this country , little better now obviously we do more nowad you know we 're talking about just after the war the Italians and the French were into colour , not garish colour , subtle lovely colours . |
| 22 | Well , it has to borrow rule six , that we were talking about just now . |
| 23 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
| 24 | Are we talking about just small businesses or is it happening across the board ? |
| 25 | ‘ Are we talking about here , in the village ? ’ |
| 26 | Although competitive sports are fine , the type of exercise we are talking about here should not involve competition , particularly if you are the type of person who usually feels that winning is important . |
| 27 | And ‘ … as is well known , the crises we are talking about here are crises of overproduction . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 29 | Well , pardon me for belching , but what we 're talking about here is a virtually unparalleled ( in this musical medium , at least ) honesty and open-ness that so far has hampered the Kitchens ' career like a rucksack full of rocks . |
| 30 | Sub-text : ‘ We both know what we 're talking about here . ’ |