Example sentences of "talking [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will not want to reprove any children for talking during your speech . |
| 2 | The Farm wanted for talking through their collective arse . |
| 3 | She wept again , talking through her snuffles of things done behind her back , of stabbings . |
| 4 | " That kid 's talking through her umbrella , sir . |
| 5 | The day before the move Mr Munro was outfaced by the prospect of it , and needed to spend time talking through his feelings at leaving the old flat . |
| 6 | He 'd spend hours down at the Pyramid talking through his emotions on this one . |
| 7 | Surely Mr Taylor is talking through his hat by implying that the part that matters in Victoria Glendinning 's life of Trollope is her speculation about Trollope 's sex life — however interesting . |
| 8 | That 's one of the occupational hazards of listening to people talking football — Docherty talking through his arse for a few quid . |
| 9 | And yet they did n't have any signs so I think he 's talking through his hat . |
| 10 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 11 | Nicholson 's are emphatically not backstreet boozers populated by men in cloth caps talking about their ferrets . |
| 12 | In both cases these are intellectuals talking about their own work by linking it with a process continually taking place at a popular level and in everyday life . |
| 13 | Chancellor Kohl once tartly remarked , ‘ When you talk to them [ the French ] about economics , they scowl , but as soon as you start talking about their nuclear capability , their faces light up . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I think that does give such programmes genuine mass appeal when you have ordinary people talking about their gardens — not huge grand gardens , quite often the kind of suburban gardens that a large number of the audience are familiar with . |
| 16 | Hackers talking about their preoccupation may have glazed eyes , they can see the true Light at the end of their programming tunnel . |
| 17 | As she said when talking about their courtship , ‘ I wanted to marry him because I felt good with him . |
| 18 | These children showed most response when they had finished modelling and were only interested in talking about their own model very little interest in those made by others in the group . |
| 19 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 20 | Where most drivers pussyfoot when talking about their colleagues , James was always ready with a sound analysis : or , for that matter , with a personal prejudice . |
| 21 | For the rest of the journey Joe listened to the brothers talking about their futures , particularly that of Martin after he came down in June . |
| 22 | ANGRY : Jerry got a blast from Mick ( left ) for talking about their love split |
| 23 | And the informal learning that teachers could so usefully acquire from each other , through talking about their teaching and watching each other teach , is often prevented by overcrowded timetables ( and , of course , the vexed issue of ‘ cover ’ ) and/or by a staff ethos that discourages such activities . |
| 24 | Each of the group members presents one of the units , and takes it in turn to entertain their fellow travellers by talking about their interests in life or about their travels . |
| 25 | So the former UEA student and Essex University press officer spends his time wandering around pubs , talking about their history and sampling their contents — generally working to promote the good old British pint . |
| 26 | Often in the past she had listened to other women talking about their young men and she had tried not to dwell on what they said . |
| 27 | Lawrence and Olivia love talking about their ancestry . |
| 28 | Because she knew she swelled and paled , in the grip of her look , she smiled even more and then invited them to start talking about their plans for their future home , which they did at once , and ceased to notice her . |
| 29 | Maybe it would help to bring in people from outside , not just in the form of professionals , such as from family planning clinics , but also people like themselves talking about their own experiences of birth control , pregnancy and motherhood . |
| 30 | Margaret and Lorraine are among a growing number of women who hope that , by talking about their experiences , they can make society aware of their existence . |