Example sentences of "talk [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because everyone who comes along to interview me has , as you have Paul , read all the clippings , then they all want to talk about the same things , and I become this kind of caricature . |
| 2 | I always have to talk about the same damned things … |
| 3 | Do n't you contribute to this picture of Dudley Moore by continuing to talk about the same old things ? |
| 4 | He likes watching TV with his father and is keen to talk to the latter about the programmes they see together . |
| 5 | He likes watching TV with his father and is keen to talk to the latter about the programmes they see together . |
| 6 | A travel company from Thailand has contacted the People 's Committee about the possibility of bringing in tourists , and the governor of the province , An He , is keen to talk to the few foreigners who pass through about his hypothetical Riviera . |
| 7 | change their mind , there must be there must be nine other posts that if they look round they could civilianise not I mean they have n't got to tell the public much it have they you still talk about the same amount of officers being civilianised . |
| 8 | We talk in the same way . |
| 9 | ‘ I telephoned the Blackpool office up to five times a day and never talked to the same person twice . |
| 10 | How do you get your students to learn about Britain , explore their own culture and attitudes , and talk at the same time ? |
| 11 | And if we all talk at the same time , he ca n't hear anything . |
| 12 | Although recognizing the dangers of verbalizing about art , Greger is adamant that ‘ … without analysis , without thinking or talking about the many interrelated meanings of an art form , the process of coming-to-know , or of ‘ growing up ’ to a work is probably not possible' ( ibid ) . |
| 13 | Usually , the former has been talking about the latter . |
| 14 | ‘ But then I feel sure we can not be talking about the same woman , Mr McKillop . |
| 15 | Nurses should therefore discover from patients what meaning these words have for them , so that they can be sure that they and the patients are talking about the same conditions . |
| 16 | Were we talking about the same sister I wondered . |
| 17 | In the heat of debate , when one side may accuse the other of not knowing what they are talking about , both sides will still assume they are talking about the same thing . |
| 18 | Another valve might help ; after all , the Marshall has a couple and the Carvin is mob-handed with a total of nine — and I 'll say it again , we 're talking about the same price range here . |
| 19 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
| 20 | First , you will want to define the problem for yourself , but later it is equally essential to define the problem at the actual negotiation — we might as well check that we are both talking about the same problem ! |
| 21 | When making a contract be sure that you are both talking about the same thing . |
| 22 | There is one proviso to this : make sure that both you and the client are talking about the same thing . |
| 23 | Again we assume that we are still talking about the same man , that he has returned home to the location where the ‘ living room ’ we first met was located . |
| 24 | Interesting though it may be to learn that there is a narrative-discourse-paragraph-introductory-particle in Huichol or Shipibo , it becomes decidedly less interesting when one discovers that the identification of the significance of these particles depends on a prior identification of the paragraph as a unit in which ‘ the speaker continues talking about the same thing ’ ( Grimes , 1975 : 103 ) . |
| 25 | If you have editing facilities , you could edit together a succession of short " clips " of different people talking about the same subject . |
| 26 | If they build traditional houses , we 're then talking about the same amount . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're not talking about the same girl . ’ |
| 28 | If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving . |
| 29 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
| 30 | If we 're talking about the same one alright , I 've got her address in Felixstowe . |