Example sentences of "[prep] talking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We could have just announced that free tickets were available at the door but after talking to the police about it we decided that was a bad idea . |
| 2 | Prime Minister Jure Pelivan , a Croat , resigned after talking to the demonstrators , an unofficial source said . |
| 3 | After talking to the Pan Am legal team in London , I flew back to the States to be with my family , and a few weeks later , the DEA did do something more drastic . |
| 4 | Jeremy Costello-Roberts was just seven years old and five weeks into his first term at Barnstaple boarding school , Devon , when he received ‘ a slippering ’ for notching up five ‘ demerit ’ marks after talking in the school corridors and , on one occasion , being late for bed . |
| 5 | Jeremy Costello-Roberts received ‘ a slippering ’ at Barnstaple , Devon , for notching up five demerit marks after talking in the school corridors and , on one occasion , being late for bed . |
| 6 | He could hear Sabrina in the bar below talking to the two men . |
| 7 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 8 | New ways of thought , concentrated but largely ineffectual attempts to persuade the British that they are ‘ European ’ , a fear of talking about the English ‘ race ’ and its diaspora round the world and the virtual disappearance of the word ‘ Protestant ’ as an adjective to describe anyone other than Ulster fanatics , has meant that a once powerful cultural and historic bond is little understood in the late twentieth century . |
| 9 | As with some of the more recent reactions to our report , the simple fact of talking about the relationships between Shetlanders and incomers or , worse , writing about it , was seen as disruptive in itself . |
| 10 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 11 | Gustave had a way of talking about the women he had enjoyed . |
| 12 | I know Meredith Putt 's been doing a lot of talking about the railway , but I did n't know it was on its way . ’ |
| 13 | He would n't dream of talking about the war . |
| 14 | But these expressions are often only convenient figures of speech , shorthand ways of talking about the average or representative members of a community . |
| 15 | MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load ! |
| 16 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 17 | It 's been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 18 | They wanted to mention the extension of nursery activities into the home , the importance of talking with the child , of playing together and sharing what has been learnt at nursery — also that staff are willing to listen to what parents have to say about happenings at home , and welcome comment and suggestions from parents . |
| 19 | Justifying the railway deficit in 1980 , for example , the chairman maintained that ‘ no one would think of talking of the deficit of the armed forces or of the fact that our state educational establishments show a deficit … ’ |
| 20 | There I was , talking to people asleep this morning and I woke to the dulcet tones of talking on the radio . |
| 21 | Growing burrs and hooks , reaming her snaggled , sleep-starved nerves , her fretting longed for the relaxation of talking to the one person who had always taken her part : her sister . |
| 22 | Set your students the task of talking to the camera in the way a reporter or newsreader does . |
| 23 | So long as the documents have been sent to all those entitled to attend a general meeting in accordance with section 238 , it is a pointless farce to require a formal general meeting to be held in order that they may be ‘ laid ’ unless a member wants to raise questions about them at a meeting , or the auditors want to have an opportunity of talking to the members about them . |
| 24 | As well as political action , the CIOB is also in the process of talking to the main clearing banks . |
| 25 | That did it — Redford opposite me , with my track record of talking to the stars ! |
| 26 | I am in the process of talking to the education co-ordinators at the prison about getting creative writing input from inmates for the project at work = British National Corpus of Current English — as the prison has had some notable successes with inmates finding new skills and talents whilst ‘ inside ’ , even to the extent of prizes and publications , which must be a tremendous lift to their spirits . |
| 27 | ‘ There is absolutely no question of talking to the Provos by proxy , ’ he commented . |
| 28 | By the end of January Mann 's own position within the Akali Dal seemed under threat from those of his supporters unhappy with his policy of talking to the government about autonomy , as well as from the militant groups such as the AISSF whom he had failed to convince of the need to abandon the concept of a full independent state . |
| 29 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 30 | Instead of talking from the stalls to actors in front of one another , he would always shamble up onto the stage with his peculiar hedgehog gait and take them aside separately . |