Example sentences of "and talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shit , look Joe , you speak to her , you sit and talking across her , , she 's talking to Sharon , you know that , that 's all the way through it |
| 2 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 3 | On his walks he could sometimes be observed waving his hat about and talking to himself . |
| 4 | But the girl remembered Ramsey taking the evacuees round him in the children 's corner , and sitting on one of the low chairs meant for a child , and talking to them naturally and with an obvious pleasure . |
| 5 | In Pakistan , ‘ if you see a girl with her Dupatta pushed up and her limbs in a relaxed position , standing and talking to boys , people passing will go on staring and start whispering among themselves — ‘ Where is her modesty ! ’ or , ‘ what is going on there ! ’ |
| 6 | The commissioners are doing what West Indians are best at , and talking to everybody imaginable — including their exile communities in Britain , Canada and the United States — about whether , and if so how , to work more closely together . |
| 7 | Even now , I 'm not sure what it was that I wanted to say , and talking to my new friend is the only way I am learning . |
| 8 | Picking a village which seems suitable or where someone lives who has been recommended , and talking to as many people as possible : later sending a letter to these people and others calling a meeting to form , one hopes , a WEA branch . |
| 9 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 10 | Finding out the answers to these questions is best done by going out and talking to parents and others . |
| 11 | A journalistic facility for finding and talking to knowledgeable people , reading the right reports and informal commentaries , plus a number of more academic and analytical papers , should enable the researcher following the general methodology outlined here to explain soil erosion in a particular country . |
| 12 | About a stone-age chappie setting snares and sharpening flints and talking to his dog and snuffing the weather in the air . |
| 13 | a strangely good baby , always laughing and talking to himself in his own fashion , kicking in his pram , talking to the trees . |
| 14 | But mainly she kept on bodyboarding on the quieter waves between Sunset and Backyards , going to parties , hanging out at the Sugar Bar , and talking to her friends on the telephone . |
| 15 | In this I may be vulnerable , for I was on the lookout for miracles and it was while watching Nancy , listening to her and eventually breaking my own icy shield and talking to her , that I came close to seeing what I was looking for . |
| 16 | Apart from providing an opportunity for observing and talking to the patient , and thereby learning more about his problems and mental state , this initial period also has other purposes . |
| 17 | After pouring the tea and talking to Yanto for five minutes about nothing in particular , she turned to her husband . |
| 18 | There were alcoves with armchairs — two men playing draughts at a table — women with handbags , visitors I suppose , sitting with cups of coffee and talking to men . |
| 19 | So why now did the very fact that he was awake and talking to her seem like an invasion of her privacy ? |
| 20 | It was most peculiar sitting there among all the cameras wearing an earphone and talking to someone more than two hundred miles away . |
| 21 | You can bring some variety and social contact into your life by simply going out and talking to people . |
| 22 | Ben sighing in bed and talking to the pillow . |
| 23 | Leadership which involves directing the meeting constantly and talking to the group for a majority of the time is unhelpful . |
| 24 | They 'll be playing live in the BBC 's Maida Vale studios and talking to Campbell about the new album . |
| 25 | ‘ And talking to foreign men , ’ Eve explained to clinch matters . |
| 26 | To spend her days reading and writing and finding out more and talking to people , and to spend no time at all trying to outwit awful people like Mother Clare . |
| 27 | And the priests in Dunlaoghaire had been great , in and out all evening , three or maybe four of them saying nice things and talking to other people , making it seem somehow more normal , drinking cups of tea . |
| 28 | He found the Regent dismounted and talking to the magistrate-father of the messenger . |
| 29 | Twice , when he had run out of ideas , he had driven the little Triumph out of the district to a coffee shop where he was not known , and had sat drinking coffee and talking to the men next to him at the counter , surprised to find himself accepted as a member of the grown-up world . |
| 30 | ‘ did loiter ( or solicit ) ’ Two police officers will keep observations for prostitutes and to prove this point their evidence should contain words to the effect that ‘ the accused walked slowly up and down High Street five times stopping and talking to several men . |