Example sentences of "talk [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner , the Shah and Carter retired to a study to talk about the Middle east with King Hussein , whom Crown Prince Reza and Ardeshir Zahedi had just welcomed at the door . |
| 2 | Once he went to the house in Stone Alley and was met at the door by Maggie Byrne , but she only wanted to talk about the undersized child in her arms whose life he had saved . |
| 3 | Vietnam , however , maintained that internal issues should be discussed with the SOC government in Phnom Penh ; it was only willing to talk about the international aspects of the problem , and urged the USA to expand the talks to include the SOC government . |
| 4 | My right hon. Friend is right to talk about the industrial capacity being too low to produce the recovery we need . |
| 5 | Colonel Goreng was moving away from the details of the operation to talk about the Western concept of ‘ human rights ’ , to mock it , to say what a ridiculous shibboleth it was when it stopped you defending the rights of those who were n't criminals , when Mrs Goreng knocked on the door . |
| 6 | I am going to talk about the familiar and rich story of the visit of the Magi , the wise men , to the infant Christ , from Matthew 2.1–12 . |
| 7 | MARY BAILEY gets many queries about albino Oscars , which gives her a perfect opportunity to talk about the other colour mutations that can occur — and why such fish rarely survive in the wild … |
| 8 | What er , we would normally say is that , what you say in here does n't leave this room via Peter and myself , er , in order , sometimes , to talk about the other situations , I think perhaps we 'll we 'll have an agreement , with whoever 's gon na pick this tape up afterwards . |
| 9 | It is emotional language to talk about the virtual destruction of the British Merchant Navy . |
| 10 | But Brucie dragged Tarby off the fairway to talk about The Good Old Days of Great British Comedy . |
| 11 | But Brucie dragged Tarby off the fairway to talk about The Good Old Days of Great British Comedy . |
| 12 | But Brucie dragged Tarby off the fairway to talk about The Good Old Days of Great British Comedy . |
| 13 | I have a meeting with a software house at ten thirty , Mike is coming in at three thirty to talk about the new book , and tonight 's one of the nights when Yvonne is teaching , so I have to be home by a reasonable hour , so that we can exchange car keys and padlock keys and that sort thing . |
| 14 | ‘ Two members of staff were invited by personal acquaintances in the Republican Party to visit the US for a few days to talk about the British general election . |
| 15 | You want to talk about the English novel ? |
| 16 | Midnight shrugged , not wanting to talk about the old slave days in Spanish Town or Montserrat , walking her along , keeping clear of the last idling stragglers . |
| 17 | I do n't know whether you want to talk about the whole area of our operation |
| 18 | But Van Cheele had no time to talk about the beautiful sky . |
| 19 | For instance , Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth had ten people each at a meeting recently ( towards the end of 1989 ) to talk about the Green Bill and other issues . ’ |
| 20 | Other resistances or blocks to communication can be more than an initial reluctance to talk about the main issues . |
| 21 | Katia starts to talk about the special projects which they are planning in Japan , and groans about management with no sense of fun — ‘ Who 's that guy we met , Marielle ? — the big pompous one , who complained that I sang too much ? ’ |
| 22 | And Britain 's swim pin-up Sharon Davies added : ‘ We have all been told not to talk about the Chinese and why they have done so well here . ’ |
| 23 | The couple , who live in the north of the city , were too embarrassed to talk about the missing nestegg . |
| 24 | The symbolic or referential function uses words to talk about the objective world , to point to things , as Richards puts it . |
| 25 | The stories are painful and shocking , but the book goes on to talk about the urgent need to ’ resist the false promise of reproductive technologies ’ and on the positive side , re-thinking fertility and infertility , and working toward women-respecting alternatives . |
| 26 | She then asked Margaret Charlwood to talk about the Potential Teachers ' Day on 9th July . |
| 27 | Clearly clearly there are o there are there are clear reasons in my view why that route was chosen but there are As I say I find th somewhat at a disadvantage because I have n't come prepared to talk about the relative merits in great detail of the two routes . |
| 28 | We started to talk about the solar system . |
| 29 | Robinson wo n't comment on House of Windsor , but he 's delighted to talk about the forthcoming £15m sponsorship of Coronation Street . |
| 30 | ‘ More and more people , including film reviewers and theorists , are starting to talk about the different representations of masculinity appearing in film and popular culture , ’ Wood says . |