Example sentences of "to talk about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family views about what is naughty or good start to be absorbed as mothers begin to talk about transgression of family rules or social behaviour . |
| 2 | Erm , it 's very much shorter because as we were saying earlier on the the short take off and landing capability , erm with er I 'd prefer to talk about distances perhaps in the closed session but the er the simple answer is very much . |
| 3 | I delivered what was to be my longest speech of the evening , saying that I gathered he was keen to talk about his role , to talk about Gary . |
| 4 | But she did n't want to talk about Hugh , did n't want his third presence intruding here , on her day with Fen . |
| 5 | Lucy knew it because whenever she started to talk about Christine , she 'd realise after a couple of minutes that they 'd moved on and were now talking about something else . |
| 6 | Hundreds of people from all over the world have come together to talk about elves , hobbits and dragons . |
| 7 | One of the few companies willing to talk about RFI is Foxbro , based in Massachusetts , which makes control equipment for petrochemical plants . |
| 8 | And where sex is concerned it is perilous to talk about shoulds and oughts . |
| 9 | She mentioned Stepsons and how good she thought it , but Herman , not having read it , preferred to talk about Muriel Spark . |
| 10 | Well as long as you continue to talk about particulate depositions , when you mean smuts on Mrs Brown 's last clean white shirt , nobody 's going to understand a great deal of what you 're talking about . |
| 11 | I had , on the way back , made one more effort to penetrate the situation ; by trying , too casually , to get him to talk about Leverrier . |
| 12 | On the morning I met Tim Waters to talk about Thresher 's plans for the development of its off-licences , few customers corresponded to the anticipated profile . |
| 13 | I mean I could do I think they 're fascinating and important — but I would prefer instead actually to talk about Darwinism Darwin as a biologist , rather than Darwin as a philosopher or as a influencer of morals and religious beliefs and so on . |
| 14 | It is all very well to talk about love , but it depends what you mean by it , for love is one of the most devalued terms and concepts in our language . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , I do n't want to talk about love , women , past marriages , present marriages , family , stuff that normal people do n't readily talk about … |
| 16 | When she stopped talking about art , she began to talk about love . |
| 17 | You wanted to talk about Lothian ? ’ |
| 18 | Or ‘ in our house we do n't like to talk about racism , everyone is tired in the evenings and we do n't like to talk about it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Miles , I did n't come down here to talk about insurance . ’ |
| 20 | He does not like to talk about manufacturing . |
| 21 | Between 1985 and 1989 the dollar value of exports more than doubled ; planners excitedly began to talk about Korea becoming a creditor nation . |
| 22 | In a minute she would say she wanted to talk about Oliver and they would go somewhere quiet , where she could explain everything slowly , from the beginning . |
| 23 | ‘ I became very suspicious when he got several of us to sign contracts never to talk about Lifeboys . |
| 24 | They 'll phone tomorrow to talk about times when you can view . |
| 25 | He liked to talk about China and I could be a good listener when interested . |
| 26 | It is high time we ceased to allow people to talk about rugby union as a minority sport — even a post-World Cup modest club match on Rugby Special rated two million viewers . |
| 27 | She 'd pointed out that it was stupid to talk about Tupperware parties as a means of raising funds since funds raised at Tupperware parties naturally went to the manufacturers of Tupperware . |
| 28 | This would however have involved a fairly cumbersome organisation , with regional committees and large numbers of volunteers trained to talk about money management to schoolchildren . |
| 29 | And I do n't want to talk about money . |
| 30 | He did n't like to talk about money any more than he used to like spending it . |