Example sentences of "talked of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He talked of the magnitude and hurtfulness of defeat . |
| 2 | We had coffee , talked of the gardens and of plants difficult to grow in chalky soil — but nothing personal was said on either side , nor any thought of how she happened to be with me . |
| 3 | She talked of the limitations of her husband and her acquaintances in a perfectly detached way , quite without personal venom and certainly without any delusions . |
| 4 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 5 | We talked of the storm and other storms they had known . |
| 6 | and talked of the advantages of a massage , |
| 7 | When he talked of the hostages or the contras something of the old fire returned , together with the old emotional lines from cabinet meetings and television speeches . |
| 8 | She talked of the spectre of Pre Menstrual Tension and how it blighted her life . |
| 9 | He talked of the misery of his marriage to his wife , and the evil character of you , Monks , his only son , who had been brought up by your mother to hate him . |
| 10 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 11 | On that occasion Lord Bradbury , one of Churchill 's two Permanent Secretaries at the Treasury , talked of the Gold Standard being ‘ knave-proof ’ . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin talked of the boot being on the other foot . |
| 13 | At tea we talked of the artist and the musician . |
| 14 | None talked of the shock , pain and agony I experienced , nor of the wonderful sense of reward in having my baby in my arms . |
| 15 | They talked of the Nissan Cherry , the Volvo 740 , the Granada Ghia , the Renault 5 , the XJ6 Jaguar . |
| 16 | When , in the face of mounting war fever the Emperor still , though half-heartedly , talked of the congress , Ollivier , himself far from bellicose , warned him that the Ministry would be overthrown and the Ministers stoned in the streets . |
| 17 | He talked of the Governor Support Unit and I 'd like to remind Councillor and his group that they were responsible for taking over a hundred posts out of the administrative section of . |
| 18 | He talked of the excellence of Mortimer at Exeter , formerly a professor at Oxford . |
| 19 | Campaigners launched a direct offensive against contemporary medical theories which talked of the inevitability of the male sexual urge , arguing that they failed to take proper account of Darwinist insights . |
| 20 | He talked of the future ; he made light of the present and its difficulties until Lucy lost sight of them too . |
| 21 | He talked of the language going to pieces " before our eyes " . |
| 22 | Touring the fort , commanded by Sir Eyre Coote of the 37th Regiment , an unexpected knowledge surfaced : ‘ Dr Johnson talked of the proportions of charcoal and salt-petre in making gunpowder , of granulating it and of giving it a gloss ’ — although he admitted to Boswell afterwards that he had ‘ talked ostentatiously ’ . |
| 23 | He talked of the need for an economic policy as well as a tax policy ; he reintroduced the notion of full employment into Labour 's vocabulary ; and he stressed that workers needed not just rights , but also the opportunity to become wealth producers . |
| 24 | Lord King , the BA Chairman , talked of the need to create an airline which was ‘ capable of taking on the world ’ in an increasingly ‘ global market place ’ ( refer to Table 2.2 ) . |
| 25 | The dictator 's successors , led by Georgi Malenkov , talked of the need to resolve East-West differences and there were signs of a relaxation in tension , not least with the end of the Korean war in July . |
| 26 | Like Schuman and Italy 's Alcide de Gasperi , Adenauer was a Christian Democrat who talked of the need to protect Western Europe 's Romano-Christian culture from the ‘ barbarism ’ of the East . |
| 27 | The right wing of the party took this to heart : Gaitskell talked of the need to shed Labour 's ‘ cloth cap ’ image and attempted to ditch the famous clause four of the party constitution , the charter for nationalisation , as an electoral liability . |
| 28 | The Declaration also talked of the need for sound economic management , the free flow of trade and the active participation of " a thriving private sector " . |
| 29 | They talked of the end of superstition and dread . |
| 30 | We talked of the influences of both Brahms , and also of traditional Irish folk idioms on Stanford 's output . |