Example sentences of "talk [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | When Len arrived , they seemed for some reason to talk about nothing but health . |
2 | I had had to talk about him to someone to ease my mind . |
3 | I ought not to talk about him to you . |
4 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
5 | We which I would hope when will itemise the qualities and strengths of the child that you want to cover , like when we do personal statements or joint statements in the tenth and eleventh year that if the form teacher just ca n't write well Fred 's worked very well , he 's done extremely well in English we 'll actually start to talk about him as an individual and his strengths and weaknesses . |
6 | I believe that it is important to be open to these sorts of dilemmas , to take opportunities to talk about them with colleagues , to try to become precise in our articulations , because then it is possible to unlock the blocked energy and exploit it positively . |
7 | Why would I want to talk about them to anyone else ? ’ |
8 | I believe that the accounts , whilst complying as John has just told us with the Companies Act , do give , I hope , as full and an informative picture as possible and therefore I do n't intend to talk about them in detail . |
9 | Children can find out these differences and we might encourage them to talk about them by posing such questions as : |
10 | To talk about everything from the fact that you do n't fancy coffee that week to things which are deeply personal . |
11 | For a short time I was completely clammed up with Marian because I had never been allowed to talk about myself with my wife . |
12 | She was able to talk about herself in a more positive way , and this she attributed to having felt useful and capable when helping her sister-in-law around the house . |
13 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
14 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
15 | Have to be able to talk about it to the owners tonight . |
16 | ‘ I wo n't promise to do that , ’ Matilda said , ‘ but I will promise not to talk about it to anyone any more , not even to you . ’ |
17 | It is by no means altogether improbable , for instance , that some ordinary person on the periphery of a murder should be so disturbed by some apparent contradiction of character that he or she feels obliged to talk about it to others involved , and thus gradually comes to unearth the secret of character you have put at the heart of your story . |
18 | So you 're not to talk about it to anyone . |
19 | I do n't want to talk about it to you . " |
20 | It would be equally fatal to talk about it to her Auntie May . |
21 | I try any watch the production at some time during the week in order to be able to talk about it to the Press . |
22 | er , now he does n't like to talk about it you see , and I said to him one day look Paul for god sake , oh , he 'll tell his mum , but he does n't like to talk about it to me |
23 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about it at the moment , Stephen , if you do n't mind . ’ |
24 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |
25 | Well , this is an issue which is sort of under debate and it 's all part of the training thing , 'cause we are going to talk about it at the Training Committee tomorrow . |
26 | The cause was a common one and as old as the hills , but I was unable to talk about it for years . |
27 | We found the locals do n't like to talk about it for fear of putting off money-spinning tourists . |
28 | This was a most amazing act ; the Chewong continued to talk about it for weeks . |
29 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |
30 | You would not care to talk about it with Matey — if you do not feel you could confide in me ? ’ |