Example sentences of "[prep] talk about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gustave had a way of talking about the women he had enjoyed . |
| 2 | MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load ! |
| 3 | He would n't dream of talking about the war . |
| 4 | I know Meredith Putt 's been doing a lot of talking about the railway , but I did n't know it was on its way . ’ |
| 5 | But these expressions are often only convenient figures of speech , shorthand ways of talking about the average or representative members of a community . |
| 6 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 7 | As with some of the more recent reactions to our report , the simple fact of talking about the relationships between Shetlanders and incomers or , worse , writing about it , was seen as disruptive in itself . |
| 8 | In the book Deighton quite openly accused David Stirling of having ‘ insisted upon talking about the raid during two social gatherings at the British Embassy in Cairo … ’ |
| 9 | Of course , matters are not helped by the fact that many men have difficulty in talking about the problem at all , often finding it both distressing and embarrassing . |
| 10 | But Andebraham Giorgis , who heads up the educational division of the EPLF , is as interested in talking about the achievements and challenges of education as about the difficulties resulting from the war . |
| 11 | The man or woman who is used to referring to the female sexual organ as a cunt will not be comfortable or confident in talking about the vulva or the vagina . |
| 12 | In talking about the image of Mitch as a hunk , the girls construct a female gaze which mocks as it dissects . |
| 13 | No one thought there were many votes to be gained in talking about the UN or Nato . |
| 14 | It was as if he had blocked out that part of his life and was only interested in talking about the future . |
| 15 | Before talking about the types of window you can choose , let's look briefly at the question of double glazing . |
| 16 | Students today were barred from talking about the decision … because ofn embargo placed on the announcement . |
| 17 | Inhibited by the presence of the police , by prudence , delicacy or embarrassment from talking about the subject foremost in their minds , they spoke to each other with the wary politeness of uncongenial strangers stranded in an airport lounge . |
| 18 | A stoic quality keeps him from talking about the problem , which is silly ; even Nicklaus discusses his back , made ancient by millions of swings and uneven leg lengths . |
| 19 | But before we move from discussing the lower levels of language — words , phrases , grammatical categories — to talking about the text as a unit of meaning , it would perhaps be useful to explain briefly what a text is and why we identify a given stretch of language as a text rather than assume that it is a set of unrelated words and sentences . |
| 20 | There is clearly something special about the apparatus of government when it comes to talking about the power which it has over our daily lives through its ability to take decisions which shape and lead society in a certain direction . |
| 21 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 22 | All right yeah well let's erm le let's stick to talking about the leaf stem for now cos we do n't want to go on er slagging off every bit of art that 's around the city centre do we Barbara otherwise |
| 23 | Try to focus on the positive , on what a scene did achieve rather than what it did n't ; give them a vocabulary for talking about the work . |
| 24 | Each unit has a ‘ Let's Talk ’ section with model conversations for talking about the games and puzzles , and a ‘ Let's Write ’ section with written exercises . |
| 25 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 26 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 27 | But I think the more important reason for talking about the Ministry of the New Church , or the Ministry of the Church is because of the erm developing needs and the developing thoughts and ideas which are actually additions which are the , the crucial area where ministry takes place . |
| 28 | The language for talking about the undergraduate curriculum already exists ; it is a matter of using it . |
| 29 | Maybe he just does n't , you know , he does n't wan na talk about the self . |
| 30 | I 'm gon na talk about the son here |