Example sentences of "and talk [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The idea is to bring these management information systems directors together and have them discuss how they judge the profitability of a new computing architecture and to talk about the results they may have had from rightsizing changes , ’ Saillard says . |
| 2 | Professor Martin Warnke , of Hamburg University , and Andreas Beyer , of the University of Bonn , met and talked at the symposium held in Hamburg on 30 March to mark the centenary of the birth of Erwin Panofsky . |
| 3 | She should have stayed and talked with the girl , but this morning , unlike most mornings , she had a deadline to meet . |
| 4 | She spoke English easily , and talked to the Emperor in that language when they wished not to be understood . |
| 5 | Nails , without thinking , sat down in the comfortable straw and talked to the mare , leaning his head against the refrigerator wall . |
| 6 | Later , in a speech at Warsaw University , the Prince spoke with admiration of the Polish people 's struggle and talked to the veterans of the uprising in which people took to the streets against the Germans , expecting help which never came from the nearby Russian army . |
| 7 | To avoid too much fuss , Anna had gone further than she intended , told her mother that she had seen Griselda 's corpse and talked to the offending motorist who had been very distressed . |
| 8 | Having stayed with the headmaster and talked to the boys , I know this to be true . |
| 9 | He admired it and talked about the artist 's meaning , and the noble ideas he attributed to him . |
| 10 | Perhaps this was what those few loud-mouthed rabbit-eyed creatures who dropped their bombs at the first flak and then came back and talked about the target area had felt like . |
| 11 | After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing . |
| 12 | One of them , the landlord of the pub , got pissed and kissed me on the mouth and talked about the problems of these demarcations — and this is in spite of all the AIDS hysteria . |
| 13 | Furthermore , many women teachers indicated that they had difficulty gaining promotion within the school ( see Burgess ? 1988a ) and talked about the ways in which they experienced sexism and oppression in their day to day work . |
| 14 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 15 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke came in and talked about the first night of Gielgud 's Prospero ( ‘ Doing it again , dear ’ at the National . |
| 16 | ‘ I went to Co Tyrone , my mother 's county , with the cup all day and then came home and sat at the fire with my wife and talked about the hotel and what had gone on that day . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We used Johnny Dankworth 's songs as well and talked about the play and about acting . |
| 18 | Then my father must have answered the buzzer in the house , because Diggs stooped slightly and talked into the grille beside the button , and then pushed the gate open and walked over the bridge , on to the island and down the path towards the house . |
| 19 | We , like most I suspect , continued the party back in our rooms ( info pack , flowers , bottle-ette of wine ) and talked into the night as I suppose we used to , way back when , before the sixties were the sixties . |
| 20 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 21 | All through the afternoon they sat and drank and talked about the trip . |
| 22 | After dinner , back on the boat , he sat and talked about the soil as the common link between people of all nations , and spoke almost lovingly of husbandry and caring for the soil almost as if it were a human being . |
| 23 | When I last saw Mailer and talked about the impending book , the atmospherics had turned suddenly propitious . |
| 24 | With this and talked about the rest of the the books . |
| 25 | The other men looked around and talked on the radio . |
| 26 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 27 | Together we walked and talked of the war and our families . |
| 28 | They thought understanding women was the key to being a good lover and talked of the importance of chemistry between two people — you could be a good lover with one partner and lousy with another . |
| 29 | and talked of the advantages of a massage , |
| 30 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |