Example sentences of "and talking about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most glider pilots have never experienced anything more hazardous than a bad landing , so reading and talking about other people 's mistakes is almost the only way of becoming aware of the kind of situations which lead to broken gliders . |
| 2 | CAROLINE HOLMES , who has her own herb nursery at Denham End Farm , Denham , near Bury St Edmunds , will be choosing and talking about a Calendar of Herbs on Monday ( 7pm ) at the Museum of Garden History , St Mary at Lambeth , Lambeth Palace , London SE1 . |
| 3 | ‘ Do we really want him on trial and talking about his past secret relationships ? ’ |
| 4 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 5 | America 's passion for watching and talking about sport ( and , those ubiquitous joggers notwithstanding , the true passion is for watching not playing ) deserves attention . |
| 6 | Like many experts in this line he finds his days are taken up by writing and talking about gardening , with precious little time left to get down to the gardening himself . |
| 7 | While they were drinking their tea and talking about the filthy tap water , there was a knock on the outside door . |
| 8 | Teachers should write alongside pupils , sharing and talking about their writing , eg in journals , notes and diagrams , so that the range of uses of writing is brought out . |
| 9 | ( vi ) In the context of their own writing , pupils should learn to organise subject matter into paragraphs , recognising that these enable readers to identify relationships between ideas , events , etc and to follow the structure of a story , account or argument , etc. ( vii ) Through reading , listening to and talking about a wide range of texts , pupils should gradually be enabled to use , in their own writing , those grammatical structures that are characteristic of written language and an increasingly varied and differentiated vocabulary . |
| 10 | Perhaps we should draw a veil over further speculation and simply describe train-spotting as one of those lovable British eccentricities , like garden gnomes , toy soldiers , strong tea , and talking about the weather . |
| 11 | Now it was the end of a disappointing Tour , he was somewhere around the 50 mark in the rankings , running out of money , and talking about going home . |
| 12 | And talking about tea , how about a cup now ? |
| 13 | He also enjoys working on his car and talking about cars with his friends . |
| 14 | First-time parents may not know how to tell stories or share pictures ; they may not know what books are available or how they should be used ; and they may not realize how important and how enjoyable books and pictures ( and talking about them ) can be . |
| 15 | And talking about feet brings us back to the first step . |
| 16 | Obviously the younger members of the family became too enthusiastic about it all because Grandfather Tallentire threatened a different kind of stop if they carried on spending so much of their time playing and talking about music . |
| 17 | I feel sorry for the little girl and I suggest to the writer that she consoles her daughter by telling her that the vile custom of killing wild animals for fun is on the way out , that almost all british people feel as she does , and are determined to end such cruelty , and that she can help to bring about its end by supporting the League Against Cruel Sports and talking about the work they do to her schoolfriends . |
| 18 | And talking about that — some readers may have encountered a research questionnaire in some copies of PFK recently . |
| 19 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 20 | When discussions get highbrow , he 's suddenly in there and talking about his metalworth O level . ’ |
| 21 | That hateful , arrogant old woman , with her superior airs and her chilly snobbishness , patting her bloody dog and talking about the child she was carrying as ‘ splendid news ’ . |
| 22 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 23 | He sent two screamers past Oxford keeper Paul Reece and declared : ‘ People have been slagging me off , saying I ca n't play and talking about my disciplinary problems . |
| 24 | Nigel was wont to say , ‘ Before knocking the iniquities of present-day science and talking about the good old days , think about dentistry , and modern pain-killing drugs and anaesthetics . ’ |
| 25 | They were n't very conventional , they were mostly younger and were into being public and talking about it . |
| 26 | Some children have little idea of how to chew and so parents demonstrating biting and chewing and talking about it shows the child how to do it . |
| 27 | And talking about the pools , do n't forget your chance to cash in with the great Vernons offer in your new Diamond Bingo card . |
| 28 | Before I was dependent on drugs , then I was dependent on people hugging me and talking about my problems . |
| 29 | The most damaging effect of the Education Reform Act would be if it snuffed out teachers ' belief that it is worthwhile thinking and talking about what they are doing . |
| 30 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |