Example sentences of "talk [prep] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , more importantly , a Smiths gig is merely part of a night out , something to talk about in the pub afterwards . |
| 2 | There was always something to talk about in the dressing-room . |
| 3 | ‘ What I feel you are saying to me is that this previous relationship is something you do n't want to talk about in front of Tom . |
| 4 | ‘ Because it makes a good story , something to talk about in the pubs . ’ |
| 5 | What we 're talking about , w what we intend to talk about in July is not just whether or not our policies are the right ones but the practicality of implementation , which is actually the hardest bit of all to grasp , and what sort of things we might do , whether it 's about spending more money , whether it 's about influencing people , whether it 's about physically restraining people on where they should go . |
| 6 | yeah and he 's spotted racism in the Atkinson et al textbook and all sorts of , all over the place so erm mm there should be something interesting to talk about in that for a start . |
| 7 | Perhaps this is , this is something we could we could , we could use to talk about in some revision seminar at the beginning of next term cos we , we , we 've sort of got up to nineteen fifty two erm maybe it would be helpful if , if sort of you know we just sat there over the vacation and then come back and sort of have look |
| 8 | But there was one man to talk to in Israel who knew more than anyone else about the land of Palestine . |
| 9 | Nevertheless we were very glad to have someone to talk to in the long reaches of the night when we were struggling to keep our eyes open . |
| 10 | My mother was more obviously unhappy ; she missed ‘ home ’ , as she never ceased to call Lewis , and her own family , and having someone to talk to in Gaelic , which was her first language but not my father 's . |
| 11 | I had quite a good vocabulary and had written letters to Eric , but I had n't had anyone to talk to in English . |
| 12 | But how do you know who to talk to in the first place ? |
| 13 | .. and a myriad of other details , talked about in the classroom , practised back in the Academy grounds and now for ‘ real ’ . |
| 14 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 15 | Still talked about in the glens is Angus MacGillivray , an ancient who was called in to settle a territorial dispute with a neighbour . |
| 16 | None of these qualities may actually be talked about in the home . |
| 17 | It needs to be something that is talked about in the same way that racism and sexism are talked about . |
| 18 | The need to harness and utilise such skills becomes an urgent priority if the NHS is to survive the recruitment and retention crisis so talked about in the late 1980s . |
| 19 | During the World Cup , when an ‘ Anglo-Saxon conspiracy ’ was talked about in France , I noticed that most people in England laughed , dismissing the claim as the words of a bad loser . |
| 20 | At this stage we were unsure how to deal with the social category of sex ( the way gender was talked about in those days ) . |
| 21 | A link with the literary house Meulenhoff Nederland is one of the possibilities that has been talked about in the Dutch trade . |
| 22 | This ancient puzzle has prompted some philosophers to draw a distinction between " being " and actual existence , and to claim that what is being talked about in such cases has being , even though it does not exist in reality . |
| 23 | For a closer analysis shows that what is really being talked about in such propositions is not men or dragons , but the concept man and the concept dragon , and what is being said is that certain things fall under the former concept , whereas the latter concept is empty . |
| 24 | If tomorrow someone discovered that Atlantis actually existed , he would not be adding a new property to the island state talked about in Plato 's Timaeus , but dispelling the suspicion that Plato , or someone else before him , invented the legend . |
| 25 | In his discussion of the metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ , Black describes the work of metaphor in discursive terms : ‘ Any human traits that can without undue strain be talked about in ‘ wolf-language ’ will be rendered prominent , and any that can not will be pushed into the background' ( 41 ) . |
| 26 | Education is rarely named by providers for fear of alienation and women are talked about in ways which make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end . |
| 27 | The introduction of the new arrangements for Community Care are no longer something to be talked about in the future , but are happening now and involving all of us . |
| 28 | I kept myself to myself , which was a way to get yourself talked about in such an open community where everybody 's business was regarded as common knowledge . |
| 29 | Surprise , the raid had been talked about in Waco for days . |
| 30 | One last time the name is going to be talked about in the circles that bother about these things and it 's all to do with Mrs Thatcher who 's prone to say about her enemies vanity , vanity , all is vanity . |