Example sentences of "[verb] talk about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want to talk about the English novel ? |
| 2 | I do n't know whether you want to talk about the whole area of our operation |
| 3 | ‘ Because everyone who comes along to interview me has , as you have Paul , read all the clippings , then they all want to talk about the same things , and I become this kind of caricature . |
| 4 | Katia starts to talk about the special projects which they are planning in Japan , and groans about management with no sense of fun — ‘ Who 's that guy we met , Marielle ? — the big pompous one , who complained that I sang too much ? ’ |
| 5 | Os Guinness has talked about the modern world in terms of a divide . |
| 6 | ‘ The matter has not been discussed formally by our general committee but our fixtures committee has talked about the possible advantages of the Five Nations championship being moved back a bit . ’ |
| 7 | Clearly clearly there are o there are there are clear reasons in my view why that route was chosen but there are As I say I find th somewhat at a disadvantage because I have n't come prepared to talk about the relative merits in great detail of the two routes . |
| 8 | Midnight shrugged , not wanting to talk about the old slave days in Spanish Town or Montserrat , walking her along , keeping clear of the last idling stragglers . |
| 9 | Then she remembered the way he 'd looked when she 'd talked about the Venetian nobility . |
| 10 | I 'm just I 'm just going to I 'm just going to talk about the second thing anyway . |
| 11 | I am going to talk about the familiar and rich story of the visit of the Magi , the wise men , to the infant Christ , from Matthew 2.1–12 . |
| 12 | WHEN ASKED to list the aeronautical contributions made by the Bell Aircraft Corporation , most enthusiasts would begin talking about the P–39/P–63 line of fighters . |
| 13 | The moment passed , her mother began talking about the late roses in her flowerbeds and Rachel was just thinking she 'd got away with not mentioning David Markham , when her father said , ‘ Talking of OBEX , we wanted to check the date of the Family Day with you . ’ |
| 14 | In early 1961 he began talking about the Algerian problem as though it were settled , using terms very similar to those which he later used in his memoirs . |
| 15 | ‘ More and more people , including film reviewers and theorists , are starting to talk about the different representations of masculinity appearing in film and popular culture , ’ Wood says . |
| 16 | Do n't you contribute to this picture of Dudley Moore by continuing to talk about the same old things ? |
| 17 | We started to talk about the solar system . |
| 18 | So even someone as obviously corrupt as Richard Nixon , people started talking about the new Nixon , new Nixon the statesman . |
| 19 | They can be essential if counsellees are to be encouraged to continue talking about the painful feelings they have about themselves and their lives , happy that they are being treated with dignity and respect . |
| 20 | Morton 's brief involves talking about the seven deadly sins , but he is talented enough not to need such an obvious vehicle . |
| 21 | Yes , I think talking about the stiff upper lippers I think we have to work with people where they are an if that 's where they are at the moment , that 's fine . |
| 22 | I think we 're getting into very difficult or er waters when we start talking about the relative comparison with other routes which I have n't er myself included in my statement any reference to . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State 's ringing declaration that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation is an example of the double-speak that the Tories use when they start talking about the British coal industry . |
| 24 | And it seems to us I mean we 've talked about the different principles , the ne sensible next step is to talk about the criteria . |
| 25 | By some spontaneous telepathic inspiration , the entire world has begun talking about the new genius in its midst . |
| 26 | Interesting though it may be to learn that there is a narrative-discourse-paragraph-introductory-particle in Huichol or Shipibo , it becomes decidedly less interesting when one discovers that the identification of the significance of these particles depends on a prior identification of the paragraph as a unit in which ‘ the speaker continues talking about the same thing ’ ( Grimes , 1975 : 103 ) . |
| 27 | I always have to talk about the same damned things … |
| 28 | Jasper wanted to talk about the two days down at Melstead , about the pickets , the excitement of it all , the arrest , the night in |
| 29 | Once he went to the house in Stone Alley and was met at the door by Maggie Byrne , but she only wanted to talk about the undersized child in her arms whose life he had saved . |