Example sentences of "talked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have talked during the election of improving the Union , and Mr Lang hinted yesterday that they would now seek some sort of consensus . |
| 2 | When government ministers talked during the mid-1980s about their justification for nuclear power , it nearly always included a catalogue of fearful threats which started with OPEC and ended with Scargill . |
| 3 | In Charlie 's loft , they had talked through the night about the sickness money brings , the violence and fear that money brings , the corruption money brings , and all along the real subject was not fear or corruption or violence , but money . |
| 4 | Mr Clark , in an extended informal evening session , talked through the issues behind MTD 's recent results and the importance of leadership in management . |
| 5 | A great deal of rubbish has been talked about the seasoning of timber by craftsmen and by romantic but ignorant amateurs . |
| 6 | Geographical factors can be a motivating factor , er we 've talked about the sun and the influence of the sun . |
| 7 | We 've talked about the sun a little bit , we just have done . |
| 8 | So , for instance , the Crowther Report of 1959 on the education of 15-18-year-olds talked about the likelihood that middle-class girls would combine a career with motherhood and marriage and the necessity for them to receive an education which prepared them for this future dual role . |
| 9 | Her brother he had met before and the two men talked about the year 's haysaving and the price they expected for sheep and wool and cattle . |
| 10 | We 've talked about the Women 's Movement so far . |
| 11 | Speaker J , in his preceding contribution , has talked about the money received for his work at a particular point in the past . |
| 12 | And indeed if if we broaden the picture out a little bit , and we 've talked about the user interface and the relational database , clearly an accounting system ca n't stand alone . |
| 13 | We have talked about the experience of anxiety symptoms as being initiated by the sudden or gradual build-up of stress . |
| 14 | To plough on with some of the other negative aspects of the budget , I 've talked about the charges . |
| 15 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
| 16 | Michael Marland has talked about the disappearance of deference and I think that 's the biggest change really that the kind of instant erm response to authority has gone and that has good and bad sides in it , so more is demanded of the teacher because his authority has to be earned , much more even than in the past I think . |
| 17 | We had talked about the heart earlier in the morning , because someone had brought ‘ Topsy and Tim Go to Hospital ’ in for storytime . |
| 18 | In an interview in Zhongguo Qingnian Bao on 16 August , Su Xiao Kang , one of the writers of the series , talked about the concerns which were expressed by the authorities and the pressures to make some changes before the repeats . |
| 19 | The men talked about the map . |
| 20 | She remembered the way Masklin had talked about the stars , and why they stayed up . |
| 21 | Well , having agreed with that , Freud then , faces a problem , because the problem he faces is , that in the previous book of his , that we looked at er , that he had published erm , what fourteen or so years earlier , Totem and Taboo where he had talked about the origin of religion . |
| 22 | He admired it and talked about the artist 's meaning , and the noble ideas he attributed to him . |
| 23 | It 's good to see some sound sense being talked about the Mar Lodge estate controversy by the John Muir Trust , fast becoming one of the foremost environment bodies in Scotland . |
| 24 | Okay , we we 've talked about the ego . |
| 25 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 26 | One , a punk , talked about the village in Wales where she lives and how difficult it is to be different , so that dyeing her hair blue becomes an extremely powerful statement about herself , saying all the things she wants to about her rejection of the values of the people in her village . |
| 27 | They 've talked about the way that employers , that employers treat workers , and do you know what that resolution does , because it 's printed in the preliminary agenda and I make no apologies for saying this . |
| 28 | We 've talked about the man in the cemetery , the graveyard , and we 've talked about other people coming into the drop in centre and their sense of anger , but what about your sense of anger ? |
| 29 | The five committee members of the Literary Lionisers were subdued ; they had talked about the horrors of Saturday night incessantly the day before . |
| 30 | One of them , the landlord of the pub , got pissed and kissed me on the mouth and talked about the problems of these demarcations — and this is in spite of all the AIDS hysteria . |