Example sentences of "talk [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eleven thirty he was called into James Cadogan 's office to talk about the best way to handle their latest commission . |
| 2 | They talked about the latest sensation — some wretched murder — and about a woman , a maidservant , who was to be tried for the murder in Geneva the next day ! |
| 3 | ‘ So you can see , Commander Talbot , what we mean when we talk about the greatest good of the greatest number . |
| 4 | If you want to find out about how he feels about being faithful , try talking about it in abstract terms — talk about the latest celebrity scandal , or friends in this situation — and see how he responds . |
| 5 | As one satirical poem put it : " Though of Passive Obedience we talk like the best , " T is prudence , when interest sways , to resist " . |
| 6 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
| 7 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 8 | We are talking about the latest sing-along video to hit the market yes , I 'm afraid it 's Karaoke Opera time ! |
| 9 | ’ — then you 're talking of the worst catcher ever not signed by the New York Giants . ’ |
| 10 | sitting on her own , is n't she talking to the eldest one who is |
| 11 | Some use an unseen ‘ expert ’ , who talks about the best way of propagating plants with polysyllabic Latin names . |
| 12 | And he smiles as he talks of the best friend and rival who accompanied him on those weekend trips . |