Example sentences of "was [adv] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was obviously talking about her , but to whom , and why ? |
| 2 | But I could not make Adèle concentrate on her lessons because she was constantly talking about the presents Mr Rochester had promised to bring her . |
| 3 | We broke windows accidentally , we were throwing erm in fact I was only talking about whip and top the other day , and erm er which was a a game we used to play . |
| 4 | ‘ You know damned well I was only talking . |
| 5 | I was only talking to her yesterday , I thought you 'd come in and asked her ? |
| 6 | I he was only talking to us before you knocked on the door . |
| 7 | No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all . |
| 8 | This meant that he was literally talking down to him , which worked wonders for his confidence . |
| 9 | I was soon talking on the telephone to Engelberger in Danbury , Connecticut . |
| 10 | Needless to say , he was soon talking to God on the big white telephone but that did n't stop his band-mates from trying to drink seven pints of water in 30 minutes , followed by a dry Weetabix race upon which the Kinkies nearly choked to death , thus depriving the world of a hot new item . |
| 11 | I 'm glad you came in there , cos I was merrily talking away was n't I ? |
| 12 | Nothing more exciting than that appeared on the horizon in his first six months in California , and he was already talking to June about going back to Mud and Neptune . |
| 13 | He moved faster than I would have thought anyone could on a train and was already talking into a radio headset when I reached his office . |
| 14 | His colleague was already talking to Nigel Cramer , who had spent the night at Scotland Yard . |
| 15 | The following day , with the barricades still in place but support for the insurrection eroding , de Gaulle was already talking about the crisis in the past tense . |
| 16 | By the time they got there he was already talking to the watchman . |
| 17 | Now he was scarcely talking to her , but more to himself , analysing and defining as always . |
| 18 | Sometimes though , there was just talking . |
| 19 | They 're gon na catch me ’ and he was just talking to the film crew and not the camera and was not conscious of the fact there was probably 14 million people watching it . |
| 20 | In a month or so , when the camera crews have left South-Central Los Angeles and weeds begin to poke their way up through the tarmac in the burned-out lots , it will be easy enough to see who was just talking and who had a genuine plan . |
| 21 | ‘ I was just talking to my bookie , ’ he said crisply , which was the way he treated money troubles . |
| 22 | ‘ I was just talking to myself . |
| 23 | Well I was just talking that over with er his apprentice and he said |
| 24 | Well I was just talking about that today to Betty . |
| 25 | And he said er , no , he said I did n't think I had he said , but now , he said I realized that how I , was forgetting er I 'd be talking and I 'd forget sort of what I was just talking about that split second . |
| 26 | Well I was just talking to Jean about that today , I mean I we 've got ta keep on doing it but , I think that |
| 27 | oh and we were jus well we just sort of cha , I was just talking about the weather , she was saying how cold it was . |
| 28 | at all , but he were n't , you know , he were n't signalling where he was going he was just talking |
| 29 | Gosh , is n't that funny Andy Mooney and I was just talking about Mickey Rooney ! |
| 30 | And er , I was just talking to her and that 's all I can remember . |