Example sentences of "talked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked for the first time about poetry , poets and our own poems : |
| 2 | ‘ It was the talk of the set — the rumour monitors were working overtime , ’ Jim said yesterday as he talked for the first time about the couple 's whirlwind romance . |
| 3 | TAGGART star Mark McManus talked for the first time yesterday about a heartbreak series of family tragedies . |
| 4 | Everybody talked about the good of golf but I do n't think any of the 24 players were satisfied with the outcome . ’ |
| 5 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 6 | But then they talked about the North , of Stockton and Teesside , and Macmillan enquired with a warmth of feeling which Ramsey found impressive . |
| 7 | We talked about the wildlife of the area and what we might see . |
| 8 | ‘ They talked about the glory of the family and then taught children to inform on their parents . |
| 9 | I said at the beginning , when I talked about the woman at the pool , that ‘ the essence of her charm , independent of time revealed itself for a second in that gesture and dazzled me . ’ |
| 10 | It was very embarrassing because she talked about the pain and degradation of sex and what a trap her marriage was . |
| 11 | Vonetta was born in this country and went to a school which had a good multicultural mix ; she talked about the ways in which many of her friends , white and Black , love Black music and styles of fashion and find Black men the most attractive . |
| 12 | They talked about the difficulty of getting food in , when all they could find was Chinese takeaway ; about strange knocks at the door of the hotel room , and why the Iranians sometimes left unexpectedly , and who the hell they were really dealing with ; about North 's pressing need for aspirin ; and about getting the hostages out , for which the only foreseeable currency was arms . |
| 13 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 14 | Gordon Brown used it when he talked about the need for an industrial policy . |
| 15 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |
| 16 | Abu Khadra showed little physical emotion when he talked about the past , but his words were carefully chosen and sometimes very angry . |
| 17 | And by the way , remember what we talked about the other day ? |
| 18 | He then talked about the changes in the power blocs , adding that those like himself who had expected the coherence of Europe to develop strongly had found the reality ‘ disappointing ’ . |
| 19 | My parents had had breakfast too , and we talked about the service . |
| 20 | ‘ They talked about the first of May , ’ he said . |
| 21 | We talked about the sizes and shapes of the leaves . |
| 22 | All through the afternoon they sat and drank and talked about the trip . |
| 23 | They talked about the baby 's health for a while . |
| 24 | We talked about the Circle quite a lot . |
| 25 | We talked about the Mickey Baker chord book last time we met . |
| 26 | Yesterday we talked about the odd lapse in our good intentions to be a saintly slimmer , and also that occasionally our best intentions to achieve a goal are stifled — sometimes through our own wrong judgement but more often by getting involved in time-wasting , non-productive activities . |
| 27 | Previously we talked about the need to want your goal — whatever that goal might be — badly enough . |
| 28 | ‘ Afterwards , he talked about the new position I gave him . |
| 29 | [ The children ] talked about the family of words which would fit [ in the various columns ] … |
| 30 | After dinner , back on the boat , he sat and talked about the soil as the common link between people of all nations , and spoke almost lovingly of husbandry and caring for the soil almost as if it were a human being . |