Example sentences of "talked [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predictably , it shot to the top of the dinner party list of mandatory topics and was talked relentlessly into the ground on every conceivable broadcasting medium . |
| 2 | They 'd talked little on the way back , Delaney desperately trying to find another reason , however unlikely , for Connors not briefing him fully . |
| 3 | Have you talked only about the bride cooking for the bridegroom when you know she is a career girl and a women 's libber , and if she is not some of the audience will be ? |
| 4 | Ellie knew this well , although she was barely five and a half years old , because she and Patsy had talked endlessly about the problem as they sat up in their cot while their father and the ‘ broth ’ played cards below them in the living room . |
| 5 | We had talked already over the telephone about her radical decision a few months ago to begin wearing the traditional Muslim dress , and how relieved she had felt since changing what she wore , feeling that she was ‘ expressing something she had felt all along ’ . |
| 6 | Little knots of people still talked earnestly in the street outside the church for a long time afterwards . |
| 7 | He had talked wildly about the meaning of life , the emptiness of it all , the lack of scope offered by the Guardian Building Society . |
| 8 | People indeed talked privately about the waste of government money , the lack of respect for public property , and it is possible that government might have regarded a discussion of that issue alone as constructive criticism : Kufrans were not sure . |