Example sentences of "[noun] talk [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 2 | On Friday 1 September the customers in the shop talked of nothing but the news that German troops had invaded Poland at five o'clock in the morning . |
| 3 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 4 | Later still again , she was doing her A's , there was Daddy talking to them over the shepherd 's pie about Keir Hardie , and her saying , ‘ Oh gosh I see , yes — ! ’ and Mummy laughing , ‘ Can we all eat and not so much learned talk . |
| 5 | Ruth heard Gran talking to her in the office — which was only a partitioned off slice of the kitchen , so Ruth could hear every word as she stacked the dishwasher . |
| 6 | Outside the front door , which was open , she could see her father standing talking to someone in the porch . |
| 7 | ‘ Two years ago Adai talked to me about the AOL . |
| 8 | Anne claimed Joe to talk to him about the books she had read and all that had happened to her since he went away , and Terry and Stephen wanted to talk to him about football and their latest craze , greyhound racing . |
| 9 | People talk about him in the pub on Sundays . |
| 10 | She could hear what sounded like Ace talking to someone on the phone as she picked up her coat and shrugged herself into it . |
| 11 | ‘ You only have to listen to people talking about you at the bar to realise that . |
| 12 | A man talked to us about the Christian way of life . |
| 13 | ‘ Then one evening this down-to-earth painter from Harrow got down from his ladder to talk to someone at the end of the passage . |
| 14 | He tries to persuade the children to talk to him about the things they feel they ca n't discuss with the staff . |
| 15 | The police talk to everybody in the hope that by hit and miss they might pick up something . |
| 16 | The Union leaders are going to send some doctors to the factory to talk to everyone about the dangers of uranium . ’ |
| 17 | A couple of clients had called me , and I would have time to talk to them in the morning ; and I had an invitation to a golf society day in a couple of weeks ' time . |