Example sentences of "[noun] talk [pron] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me nearly twenty minutes to talk her out of the loo , finally having to promise that Nevil was not a friend , that he would n't call the police and that there would be no need for Mr and Mrs Binkworthy to know anything untoward had happened that afternoon . |
| 2 | They will need to have the skills to talk someone out of another pair of loopstitch socks or convince a lost soul that a key-ring with a thermometer measuring wind-chill factor is not going to change their lives . |
| 3 | Our attempts to talk him out of this merely provoked his scorn . |
| 4 | Old Trafford boss Alex Ferguson talked him out of an immediate announcement , but Graham Taylor 's decision not to retain Robson for next week 's decisive game in Poland made any further delay pointless . |
| 5 | The band and crew have a month to talk him out of it . |
| 6 | Paula might look as if butter would n't melt in her mouth but when her mind was made up to something it took a stronger woman than Grace to talk her out of it . |
| 7 | As you your way talked him out of the bed , did he talk to you ? |
| 8 | WHINGEING Tony Cottee talked himself out of a job , then watched his stand-in play a major role in the Everton tragi-comedy that followed , writes Graham Fisher . |
| 9 | But he dispels that notion when asked how seriously he considered a dangerous brain operation in Mexico before his family talked him out of it . |