Example sentences of "talked [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explaining one of the sections of their manifesto in the preface to the exhibition at Bernheim 's , the Futurists , now aware of Cubist painting , talked for the first time of ‘ battles of planes ’ ; and Boccioni summarizes most concisely the debt of Futurism to Cubism when in Pittura Scultura Futuriste , published in 1914 , he wrote under the heading ‘ Compenetrazione dei Piani ’ : ‘ It is the pictorial method of rendering movement in a painting , making the surrounding objects fuse with the structure of the object placed in their midst ’ . |
| 2 | And finally , again we 've already talked about the elderly er age groups , there was a growth in the sixty plus age group of about five per cent . |
| 3 | I do believe fervently that no man is fit to be any man 's master ; that an uncontrolled capacity to amass wealth is thoroughly wrong ; that the class system , particularly in relation to education , needs urgent change ; that it is right and proper and sensible to be an enthusiastic European and that much nonsense is talked about the alleged loss of sovereignty . |
| 4 | Os Guinness has talked about the modern world in terms of a divide . |
| 5 | A lot of nonsense was talked about the new Festspielhaus . |
| 6 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke came in and talked about the first night of Gielgud 's Prospero ( ‘ Doing it again , dear ’ at the National . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend the Member for Stockton , South talked about the representative role of a Member of Parliament and how it had changed , which is also important . |
| 8 | Then she remembered the way he 'd looked when she 'd talked about the Venetian nobility . |
| 9 | ‘ The matter has not been discussed formally by our general committee but our fixtures committee has talked about the possible advantages of the Five Nations championship being moved back a bit . ’ |
| 10 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 11 | And it seems to us I mean we 've talked about the different principles , the ne sensible next step is to talk about the criteria . |
| 12 | Herbert Kelman , Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University , talked about the social context of torture . |
| 13 | ‘ He said : his grandfather always talked about the little people , but he never believed it until now . |
| 14 | Although they had not talked about the weird reality of Northern Ireland since her arrival , in Manchester Jessica occasionally had a little rant . |
| 15 | As Gerry and his fellow villagers talked of the better days to come , a carload of American tourists pulled up in the street beside him and asked for directions to ‘ Dannygal ’ . |
| 16 | There also was resentment in the way that this recently qualified teacher talked of the rich . |
| 17 | Speaking of the Commonwealth at the time of Dunkirk in 1940 , Churchill had talked of the old lion with her lion-cubs about her , and a lion that had beaten a unicorn must have ancient strengths that Modernism and Bloomsbury alike between the wars had failed to acknowledge or to note . |
| 18 | Arthur Pridmore , when he did condescend to talk at breakfast , talked with the magisterial authority of head of his family , Mr. Bowlem 's bailiff and People 's warden at the village church . |
| 19 | Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words . |
| 20 | I did n't understand her questions was it the figures had come from the private sector I 'm not sure if she understood it herself either erm we 've talked in the social services planning cuts committee about a list of homes for refurbishment and Mr wanted a very long list er a list which would blight every home not on the list . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've talked to the good guys , now we have to talk to the bad guys . |
| 22 | We 've talked to the existing publishers and this was now eight weeks ago and they still have n't written despite many phone calls from me to put suggestions forward as to costings and so on . |
| 23 | To avoid too much fuss , Anna had gone further than she intended , told her mother that she had seen Griselda 's corpse and talked to the offending motorist who had been very distressed . |
| 24 | Have you talked to the actual class ? |
| 25 | Then the captain talked to the other five men , and they agreed to help him . |
| 26 | The brothel keeper had no reason to lie to me , and I 've talked to the other clients who saw her there . ’ |
| 27 | The hospital team again responded to this change and now once more talked to the new husband and did not talk to the parents . |
| 28 | He 's probably talked to the old night porter . |
| 29 | In their discussions on the replacement system , have the Government talked to the German Government about the possibility of basing a new nuclear missile system in Germany ? |