Example sentences of "talked [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked for the first time about poetry , poets and our own poems : |
| 2 | ‘ It was the talk of the set — the rumour monitors were working overtime , ’ Jim said yesterday as he talked for the first time about the couple 's whirlwind romance . |
| 3 | TAGGART star Mark McManus talked for the first time yesterday about a heartbreak series of family tragedies . |
| 4 | Our biology teacher took it , but it was it was also so , it was the facts about erm sex , abortion contraception , but we also , also talked about the emotional side of things . |
| 5 | If we just talked about the technical side of music , it would be a very short interview . |
| 6 | So the brain we talked about the two hemispheres the left and the right hemisphere the fact that the left is very much involved in a a linear way whereas the right is involved in spatial way , anybody remember the relative contribution of the two halves ? |
| 7 | And by the way , remember what we talked about the other day ? |
| 8 | yeah , so why do they call him Harry all the time , Harry for a boy , that 's awful I mean a lot of the old names , we talked about the other day , a lot of the old names have come back for children , but I mean I do n't think Harry should be |
| 9 | ‘ Afterwards , he talked about the new position I gave him . |
| 10 | All Paris talked about the new Margarita in Faust , the girl with the beautiful voice , the girl with the voice of an angel . |
| 11 | You talked about the New Cut ? |
| 12 | We also talked about the new settlement being self-contained and integrated , but came I think to a consensus around the table that the level of employment provision in the new settlement should be related to the level of employment supply in the new settlement as opposed to a level of employment which would satisfy employment needs |
| 13 | We talked about the moral needs . |
| 14 | He talked about the European Commission 's social action programme . |
| 15 | ‘ They talked about the first of May , ’ he said . |
| 16 | We then talked about the first of those two towers of Tower Bridge if you remember which was about the skills that we need for er delivery . |
| 17 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 18 | Before we talked about the phantom dinner party we talked about aesthetics . |
| 19 | Each evening there were General Meetings , in the Philharmonic Hall or St George 's Hall : at one the President , Lord Harrowby , gave an address ; at another , Owen talked about the anthropoid apes ; and one evening Edward Sabine talked about terrestrial magnetism . |
| 20 | We talked about the general strike , family , marriage , work , the union , the Labour Party . |
| 21 | As a probationary teacher explained when she talked about the general attitude : |
| 22 | On 9 October I went to see Macmillan in the nursing home and he talked about the future leadership . |
| 23 | So now , what are the relations between them erm we talked about the logical bit last time , but about semantics and syntactics and point eight . |
| 24 | And when he and Hugh Paddick joined together for their Julian and Sandy routine — bravely supposedly using the names , and names only , of Julian Slade and Sandy Wilson ( writers of The Boy Friend and Salad Days ) — Williams and Paddick were giving new meaning to that word ‘ gay ’ , especially when they talked about the figure-hugging black number they had bought in Carnaby Street . |
| 25 | Yesterday we talked about the odd lapse in our good intentions to be a saintly slimmer , and also that occasionally our best intentions to achieve a goal are stifled — sometimes through our own wrong judgement but more often by getting involved in time-wasting , non-productive activities . |
| 26 | And particularly over the last session we talked about the symbolic actions that make up the actual point of confirmation , the confirming of the sacrament , of the sacrament of confirmation . |
| 27 | We have the president of the board of trade and industry making a stirring speech and saying that four hundred and forty proposals as a result of the booklet called cutting red tape were either being implemented or under active consideration and he talked about the explanatory guide to the bill , the new scrutiny committee that might be set up in each house , he spoke about the business task forces that had made over six hundred recommendations the debate I thought heralded was er er I thought the debate heralded er er a new age where over zealous officialdom would be a thing of the past . |
| 28 | Mm , mm , I heard an interesting programme on Radio Shropshire which talked about the tailed bat , which brought out the historical importance of the building , and I learnt one or two things that I did n't know , apparently one of the very early carvings , who plays Sidney I think , and yet , yet it was n't er , destroyed until the next revolution took place . |
| 29 | He talked about the bad publicity for the Russians flowing from an incident in London a few years before , when the Bulgarian secret service murdered a political exile in London . |
| 30 | He talked about the rising cost in legal aid ; he talked about legal aid in other countries ; and he arbitrarily discounted the proposals in our alternative package . |