Example sentences of "talk [prep] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Long conversations tired her but she loved to talk of the old days and her life as a nanny to a wealthy family . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not , but I 'm sending Curnow to Carbis Bay to talk to the old man . |
| 4 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 5 | Speaking of the Commonwealth at the time of Dunkirk in 1940 , Churchill had talked of the old lion with her lion-cubs about her , and a lion that had beaten a unicorn must have ancient strengths that Modernism and Bloomsbury alike between the wars had failed to acknowledge or to note . |
| 6 | Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words . |
| 7 | He 's probably talked to the old night porter . |
| 8 | Susanna still comes to visit me sometimes , and we talk about the old days . |
| 9 | Talk about the old country , what is it ? |
| 10 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 11 | Well I think I must take issue with you when you talk about the old days . |
| 12 | We talked of the old Princess 's meeting with Jawaharlal Nehru when he whispered into her ear : ‘ Sister , if ever you need anything , just let me know . ’ |
| 13 | Mrs Browning likes to have me with her now , no other person will do , and we talk of the old days and Miss Henrietta slipping off to Regent 's Park to walk with Mr Surtees Cook and the squeezes she loved to hold in Wimpole Street when her father was away . |
| 14 | Talking about the old days is fun . |
| 15 | Oh you 're not talking about the ehm , you not , you not talking about the old club down , ehm . |
| 16 | Yes , of course they are , but we , I was talking about the old sort of diesel multiple unit . |
| 17 | When I was young she used to come up to my mother 's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady . |
| 18 | I loved to hear him talk about the old days . ’ |
| 19 | I just could n't talk with the old bag next to us flapping her ears to catch every word . |