Example sentences of "[coord] talk [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no easy answers , but it will help to get as much information as you can and to talk to a sympathetic doctor of midwife before making a decision . |
| 2 | The recent flood of cheery indicators is so good that it almost certainly condemns the beaming government to setbacks over the coming months , and to talk of a double-dip recession . |
| 3 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 4 | Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend . |
| 5 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 6 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 7 | They stayed on the hill and talked for a long time . |
| 8 | They sat down and talked for a short time . |
| 9 | Simon poured some port into the Stilton and talked of a hot tip about buying shares in a firm called North-East Gas Enterprises Limited . |
| 10 | Health Works readers can ring in free today and talk to a trained nutritionist about diet . |
| 11 | ( 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 . |
| 12 | They all cackle with pleasure at the absurdity of it ; then , as soon as Harry has gone back into his room , they all mock him , walking back and forth about the room holding imaginary braces and letter , and talking with a German accent . |
| 13 | Jettisoning Shakespeare , and talking in a ludicrous mixture of Italian and heavily accented English , he comes on as a hilarious parody of a libidinous Latin , pinching handbags from the audience , flogging dodgy cassette tapes and offering healing laughter after all the grief of the earlier acts . |
| 14 | ‘ He has another season-and-a-half on his contract , and if he 's playing as well as he is now , we will definitely sit down and talk about a new deal . |
| 15 | Who was going to stop and talk to a young girl like me ? |