Example sentences of "talked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this and talked about the rest of the the books . |
| 2 | Later they talked about the rest of the Forest of Arden delegation , agreeing that Angela Cartwright was ‘ a pain in the bum ’ and Franklin was creepy , while the Malcolms were the world 's biggest bores . |
| 3 | All through the afternoon they sat and drank and talked about the trip . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend the Member for Taunton talked about the difficulties in the south-west and whether Taunton should become the capital or whether it should be Bristol , Plymouth or Exeter . |
| 5 | We actually talked about the difficulties that it causes |
| 6 | But then they talked about the North , of Stockton and Teesside , and Macmillan enquired with a warmth of feeling which Ramsey found impressive . |
| 7 | Walden talked about the way in which Britain 's role had been artificially inflated by the cold war : ‘ What could be better calculated to raise the national spirits than a government holding the flag high in the face of the evils of communism , the murderous follies of buffoonish Argentinian generals , and the intrigues of the perfidious French ? ’ |
| 8 | We talked about the possibility of his death , we talked about the possibility of him being permanently brain damaged , we talked about the happiness they had enjoyed together and how important it had been to both of them to find each other . |
| 9 | They talked about the difficulty of getting food in , when all they could find was Chinese takeaway ; about strange knocks at the door of the hotel room , and why the Iranians sometimes left unexpectedly , and who the hell they were really dealing with ; about North 's pressing need for aspirin ; and about getting the hostages out , for which the only foreseeable currency was arms . |
| 10 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |
| 11 | He then talked about the changes in the power blocs , adding that those like himself who had expected the coherence of Europe to develop strongly had found the reality ‘ disappointing ’ . |
| 12 | erm You missed last week 's talk , which actually was quite lucky because the projector broke down , so it was n't a great success ; but last week , erm I talked about the beginning up to the eighteen thirties , Victorian costume , and really what I was trying to put across last time , was the fact that the nineteenth century saw the beginning of fashion for the masses . |
| 13 | So we talked about the edge . |
| 14 | ‘ Bill and I talked about the amniocentesis for a long time tonight , and we 've decided against it . ’ |
| 15 | I talked about the leadership being essentially a leadership of modernizing nationalist intellectuals . |
| 16 | My parents had had breakfast too , and we talked about the service . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They talked about the play . |
| 19 | He talked about the day , the road , the heat , the liquefied cheese , the children at the oasis . |
| 20 | In the Yeats memorial lecture in Dublin , for example , he talked about the theatre as a medium for " the expression of the consciousness of a people " and two years later he castigated the failure of most poetic drama to evoke the rhythms of " colloquial speech " ; he returned to this theme a year later when , in a preface to S. L. Bethell 's Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition , he described the language of poetic drama as the language which people " would speak today if they could speak in poetry " . |
| 21 | We talked about the moths for a bit , and then someone asked what she had done with the mask . |
| 22 | He talked about the stress on the people we employ . |
| 23 | Abu Khadra showed little physical emotion when he talked about the past , but his words were carefully chosen and sometimes very angry . |
| 24 | We talked about the past , but only the past we once shared . |
| 25 | ‘ He talked about the past . |
| 26 | We talked about the course , how we could set it up and who would need to be involved . |
| 27 | Joe talked about the incident at home and was surprised at Anne 's interest and her questions about the boy . |
| 28 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
| 29 | We talked about the possibility of his death , we talked about the possibility of him being permanently brain damaged , we talked about the happiness they had enjoyed together and how important it had been to both of them to find each other . |
| 30 | We talked about the possibility of his death , we talked about the possibility of him being permanently brain damaged , we talked about the happiness they had enjoyed together and how important it had been to both of them to find each other . |