Example sentences of "people talk about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | the social position of the fishermen and their families means that they are scared to speak out , scared to get together with other people to talk about the problems , and they think there is nothing they can do about it . |
| 2 | Henry thought this was depressingly typical of the way in which people talked about the recently deceased . |
| 3 | Honestly , people talked about the kids today as though they were all Dior models , but they still had spots and puppy-fat just like kids always had , and always would have . |
| 4 | People talk about the role of chairman or chief executive as though these are clear definitive roles . |
| 5 | People talk about the news and the government more critically than they did before . |
| 6 | You know when people talk about the war we feel dreadful ! |
| 7 | Clients are often confused about treatments , as in the vignette quoted left , where the image of the laboratory test-tube , rather than a Petri dish , is still common currency and people talk about the GIFT operation ( gamete-intra-fallopian transfer ) as if indeed they are about to receive a ‘ gift ’ . |
| 8 | When your people talk about the company ( the organization ) , whom are they talking about ? |
| 9 | When your people talk about the organization they should be talking about you . |
| 10 | People talk about the great sanctity of the sovereignty of Parliament . |
| 11 | WHEN PEOPLE talk about the good old days , they usually mean the 1920s to early 1950s . |
| 12 | A lot of people think we 're going to be these po-faced people talking about the dark realms of the psyche . ’ |
| 13 | Lyle Shelton in Bearcat Rare Bear started people talking about the 500mph mark , with a winning average speed of 481mph . |
| 14 | If you have editing facilities , you could edit together a succession of short " clips " of different people talking about the same subject . |
| 15 | Th they were really hovels , I mean , you know when I hear people talking about the good comradeship and that . |
| 16 | I do n't need the Chief Executive to tell me what 's happening because I 'm going to be involved in seeing what 's happening and as far as the Labour people talking about the cost it 's going to create . |