Example sentences of "[vb base] to talk about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You just want to talk about music and fucking and dope and that 's all . |
| 2 | At the question session afterwards , one disgruntled UFO watcher summed up the audience 's feelings : ‘ If you want to talk about psychology , why do n't you bugger off to a psychology conference . |
| 3 | Okay , alright , I want to move on now quarter past four now , I want to talk about assertiveness . |
| 4 | ‘ But they want to talk about work , Maggie , get us into a union and all that . |
| 5 | The range and nature of that choice maybe related to the concept of power and I want to talk about power at a future lecture . |
| 6 | How could you really have witnessed that ? and when I say that finally I want to talk about terrier men because basically they 're the people who 've ruined your sport the terrier men are illegal , the terrier men are doing something that is definitely illegal in this country . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to talk about socialism , ’ said one . |
| 8 | We tend to talk about unemployment in terms of purely economic factors ; |
| 9 | Family views about what is naughty or good start to be absorbed as mothers begin to talk about transgression of family rules or social behaviour . |
| 10 | Well as long as you continue to talk about particulate depositions , when you mean smuts on Mrs Brown 's last clean white shirt , nobody 's going to understand a great deal of what you 're talking about . |
| 11 | There is an 88050 RISC chip already on the drawing board from Motorola Inc , say sources close to the company , who also continue to talk about convergence with the IBM Power family which Motorola are also collaborating on . |
| 12 | But I had never really formed any ambition to become a Member of Parliament , I just talked about things which I love to talk about till all of a sudden one of the guests said : ‘ You want to be a Member of Parliament do n't you ? ’ and I said , ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 13 | We only start to talk about sacrifice with our children when something seriously wrong has happened in the relationship , when the mother or father says bitterly : ‘ Do n't you understand what I have given up for you ? |
| 14 | A classic example of this is the need some elderly people have to talk about death — often their own death in particular , even to the point of wanting to discuss very freely the kind of arrangements they would like to be made for their funeral : how it should be conducted , what hymns should be chosen , and who should be invited to it and to the family gathering afterwards . |