Example sentences of "talking [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately , out to the trough , talking all the time . |
| 2 | Then I undressed her , and dressed her up in her own clothes , she acquiescent as a little child , talking all the time about the snowdrops , and how the days were beginning to draw out — and everything except people , and the circumstances in which we found ourselves . |
| 3 | He always stands strategically in corners at parties or similar wasteful gatherings of the wasted , his glass tilted in his hand , his broad back against the wall , talking all the while in those low , resonant yet rather monotonous tones which everyone listens to with a sniggery sort of attention . |
| 4 | Green talks a good deal in an inflated style , and always looks sideways at the object he is speaking to ; when he looks directly forward , it is at some piece of furniture or other inanimate object , still talking all the while . |
| 5 | She shepherded him towards the Captain talking all the time . |
| 6 | It was said that a talented and gentle boy , named Israel , led his classmates into the forest to admire the birds and flowers , talking all the while of the holy scriptures . |
| 7 | Joe sat on the wooden kitchen chair and watched Mrs Alice Carver flitting back and forth from the stove to the table , talking all the while . |
| 8 | It 's a contradiction she captures in one of her characters in Without You I 'm Nothing — a secretary who moves to swinging San Francisco , gets a great job , then marries her boss , talking all the time in a torrent of adspeak , product placement and magazine cliché . |
| 9 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 10 | I can hear myself talking all the time . |
| 11 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 12 | The proprietor must have thought that they were lovers because he showed them to the most secluded table in the place , talking all the while in rapid French , which she could n't understand at all , but which Piers had no trouble in comprehending . |
| 13 | Jancey is talking all the time , like she 's coaxing a wounded dog . |
| 14 | I walk back to my car with friends , talking all the while , and fumbling my keys in door , fail to open it . |
| 15 | He untied the rope and then bent , inspecting the horse carefully , examining each leg , and they could hear him talking all the time , soothing , quiet words that stilled the animal . |
| 16 | Mrs Diggory looked taken aback for a moment , but she took the hand and then ushered the lady inside , talking all the while . |
| 17 | He stood up as well and held out his hands , talking all the time in a soft , friendly tone . |
| 18 | Talking all the time she opened a few cupboards , then got a tin out and fiddled around with it . |
| 19 | Mrs Funnell followed Peggy into the kitchen , talking all the way . |
| 20 | They tend to work at entirely separate sections of the music , ignoring each other , but talking all the while . |
| 21 | When I was young I co I do n't remember talking all the time about bloody health and what you should do and what you should n't do . |
| 22 | and stuff and they 'd be shouting down they were all like , they were all real East End barrow boys and , and just , it was exactly like the film , just talking talking talking all the time on two phones and like , and like I was just so scared to go in there because I , if you do anything wrong they just shout immediately . |
| 23 | Surveys yeah , but I mean from your and my point of view we do n't sit here talking all the time , but when your father gets in then there 's talk |
| 24 | Who 's still talking ? sit there talking all the way through erm |
| 25 | Oh well it was going when I was , you were talking all the way back from the squash club |