Example sentences of "to talk [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some families will want to talk about the present , believing that what has occurred in the past is of little or no consequence . |
| 2 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a lot of denial and it is very difficult to talk about the abuse when it is happening to you , especially if you are a researcher as you do n't have much contact with the person on a regular basis , ’ Ogg says . |
| 4 | I know people who were prisoners of war in Japanese camps during the second world war and who , even now , find it hard to talk about the abuse that they suffered . |
| 5 | Ernst & Young fielded a former Inland Revenue Inspector of Taxes and a former VAT inspector — gamekeepers turned poacher as it were — to talk about the changes brought about by the Single Market to the regulations governing direct taxation and VAT . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , without interfering , an adult who is obviously interested in what they are doing can encourage them to talk about the choices they are making regarding size , shape and texture . |
| 7 | Only a few of her friends had been active in the Resistance , but it was clear that neither they nor anyone else much wanted to talk about the choices they had all had to make . |
| 8 | The relief of being able to talk about the problem at all will probably be of some comfort . |
| 9 | I were going to talk about the problems of an ex Premier League football manager today . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Thus the Tabula Rasa flourished in its peculiar , purposeless way , gathering to talk about the secrets it kept , as Roxborough had decreed , and enjoying the sight of the city from its place on Highgate Hill . |
| 12 | Here was I , not going to talk about the Pope 's ‘ Lamentabili ’ and have n't I spent ten minutes on it already . |
| 13 | In other words if you , you 've been a teacher and you 're working in a school , you tend to talk about the things about your school that different from other schools , not about the things about your school that are the same , and that go on in all the other schools as well . |
| 14 | In his " Home Thoughts from Abroad " he chose to talk about the state of British politics and how the " system " had gone wrong and ought to be changed and improved . |
| 15 | Continuing our short series on education , today we 're going to talk about the school curriculum . |
| 16 | The first is to spell out to you the precise erm constitutional position of the president and the second , and perhaps more interestingly , is to talk about the notion of presidential power . |
| 17 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 18 | It is a gross slander on the miners to talk about the cost of coal and about productivity when miners in Britain are achieving record productivity figures . |
| 19 | When questioned on the radio , they admitted that their policy was to talk about the issue . |
| 20 | In recent years , it has been argued that the position and powers of the Prime Minister have altered so considerably that it makes sense to talk about the rise of prime ministerial government and the transformation of the Cabinet into yet another " dignified " part of the constitution . |
| 21 | Work , leisure , social stratification , social control , patterns of family life , the Church , and so on will be likely headings used to stimulate the respondent to talk about the past . |
| 22 | ‘ But I do n't want to talk about the past , ’ I said . |
| 23 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 24 | Taking the time to talk about the past , focusing on the experience of the counsellee in all its detail and complexity , can help to establish the counselling relationship . |
| 25 | Whilst we 're talking about charges , of course , I do need to talk about the Home Care charge , do n't I ? |
| 26 | So he does n't want me to talk about the Hound . |
| 27 | Anne , waiting downstairs for him with coffee and sandwiches on a tray , wanted to talk about the find at Wyvis Hall . |
| 28 | After the emergency , give your child the opportunity to talk about the incident and about any other worries he or she may have . |
| 29 | 1.8 Staff who experience a violent incident will have the opportunity to talk about the incident with colleagues and managers . |
| 30 | Rangers were reluctant to talk about the incident today — they say there has been vandalism but they 'll wait until the morning to consider their next step . |