Example sentences of "[not/n't] talk about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Britain 's swim pin-up Sharon Davies added : ‘ We have all been told not to talk about the Chinese and why they have done so well here . ’ |
| 2 | Although they had not talked about the weird reality of Northern Ireland since her arrival , in Manchester Jessica occasionally had a little rant . |
| 3 | If we say that characterising the topic framework is a means of making explicit some of the assumptions a speaker can make about his hearer 's knowledge , we are not talking about the total knowledge which the speaker believes he shares with his hearer . |
| 4 | And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar . |
| 5 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 6 | I am not talking about the ongoing struggle towards black liberation , for there is much more to the emancipation of blacks than opposition to racism . |
| 7 | No , I 'm not talking about the lost things . |
| 8 | I 'm not talking about the bloody money . |
| 9 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 're not talking about the same girl . ’ |
| 11 | Oh you 're not talking about the ehm , you not , you not talking about the old club down , ehm . |
| 12 | We 're not talking about local authority homes , we are not talking about the voluntary sector , we are talking about the private homes which are run by private companies , or individuals , not on a voluntary basis , but on a profit basis . |
| 13 | Why not talk about the wonderful coastline , the lovely villages and the many excellent restaurants in the region ? |
| 14 | And to think , he wrote , that with all my previous work I barely knew what step to take first , let alone what step to take second , let us not talk about the third . |
| 15 | And if he was n't talking about the after life , he was talking about birds . ’ |