Example sentences of "[pers pn] talked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter and I talked over the weekend . |
| 2 | ‘ Bill and I talked about the amniocentesis for a long time tonight , and we 've decided against it . ’ |
| 3 | erm You missed last week 's talk , which actually was quite lucky because the projector broke down , so it was n't a great success ; but last week , erm I talked about the beginning up to the eighteen thirties , Victorian costume , and really what I was trying to put across last time , was the fact that the nineteenth century saw the beginning of fashion for the masses . |
| 4 | I talked about the conditions that Normandin had described and kept repeating that it was n't a question of doing a deal , but of looking at other ways to get the hostages out . |
| 5 | I talked about the leadership being essentially a leadership of modernizing nationalist intellectuals . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Er the impression I got when I talked to the locals who lived here was that it was n't gon na be that mixed . |
| 8 | ‘ But I talked to the Baron earlier , and Madame de Rochefort . |
| 9 | I talked to the boy who 'd been trying to help this Frome — trying to get him to vomit it up , and so on . |
| 10 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 11 | I talked to the tellers . |
| 12 | ‘ But I talked to the Commander yesterday , ’ Rilla said . |
| 13 | I talked to the workmen . |
| 14 | We always had books and newspapers in the house , and I talked to the children about them every day . |
| 15 | I talked to the doctor at the factory . |
| 16 | ‘ Did n't even know myself until I talked with the PM this afternoon . |
| 17 | I think one of the difficulties of science — you talked at the beginning of switching people off science — is there are some golden opportunities when you can argue science , you can argue politics , you can argue English Literature with your teacher — it 's very hard to argue mathematics with your teacher . |
| 18 | ‘ You talked with the woman , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ . |
| 20 | Thing was in fairness Martin er er it 's actually the sociability side er both both of you talked about the house did n't you and how , how long you came here and of course I changed it to how , the directions er which you gave me now |
| 21 | Claudia took charge ; Philip stood helplessly while she talked to the ward sister and exerted her considerable authority to get the doctor called immediately . |
| 22 | She talked to the flowers , I recall , as though trying to persuade them to show themselves and be collected , broken and bunched . |
| 23 | She talked of the spectre of Pre Menstrual Tension and how it blighted her life . |
| 24 | She talked of the limitations of her husband and her acquaintances in a perfectly detached way , quite without personal venom and certainly without any delusions . |
| 25 | Everything he said , she talked over the end of it . |
| 26 | Her eyes crinkled when she talked about the residents , and Juliet decided she liked her . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was very embarrassing because she talked about the pain and degradation of sex and what a trap her marriage was . |
| 29 | She talked about the vulnerability of a figure unknowingly watched — the difference between a portrait and an unposed study . |
| 30 | At tea we talked of the artist and the musician . |