Example sentences of "[vb past] to talk [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally tried to talk to the boy 's mother , but she dismissed it all as harmless pranks . |
| 2 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 3 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 4 | The striped shirt man now began to talk about the portfolio . |
| 5 | Beside him , Clarac began to talk about the progress they had made , the difficulties they had overcome , but Berdichev was hardly listening . |
| 6 | The Health chairman was unmoved ( leading Awlad Amira to remark later that everything had already been decided , there was no true democracy ) and was about to raise another aspect of the question when a speaker at the public microphone began to talk about the roads , mentioning the present high cost of transport across the Sahara . |
| 7 | There was a pause ; the Health chairman began to talk about the need for hospitals near roads ; accidents would happen , victims would need care . |
| 8 | That was the year when , in the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , people first began to talk about the death of images . |
| 9 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 10 | Baldwin at once began to talk about the walk they would have the following morning , and suggested that they should eschew the subject of coal for the evening . |
| 11 | ‘ This is the story of how God created the world , ’ and he began to talk about the light and the darkness , the coming of the sky and the sea , the fish and the animals and of Adam and Eve . |
| 12 | He began to talk to the Colonel with animation I 'd not seen before about hunting deer from helicopters in the South Island . |
| 13 | The prime minister began to talk to the ayatollahs about the need to distinguish between global politics and religion , . |
| 14 | I began to talk with the priest . |
| 15 | As she showed him the barn , they began to talk of the forest . |
| 16 | Under such pressure the hacker broke down and confessed : ‘ … he began to talk of the pleasure he got out of playing the weirdest experimental games with the computer … |
| 17 | I decided to talk to the teachers in their year groups to elicit their personal views of questioning . |
| 18 | Will loved to talk to the actors and to listen to all their stories of London . |
| 19 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 20 | They started to talk about the ego , id and superego as if they were physical realities located in the body . |
| 21 | At seven P M , she started to talk about the evening things and went to sleep . |
| 22 | And then when I went to talk to the sister , me , you know I fuck when I rang she was she had to have an operation on her knee , the whole kneecap was broke . |
| 23 | Anna Harland left the prison and went to talk to the police . |
| 24 | In his " Home Thoughts from Abroad " he chose to talk about the state of British politics and how the " system " had gone wrong and ought to be changed and improved . |
| 25 | On wet days at Great Casterton we took it in turns to lecture , and on one of them I offered to talk about the Fosse Way as a Roman military frontier , a subject which had intrigued me from my work at Lincoln . |
| 26 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 27 | She was studious , read much , and liked to talk about the cosmos . |
| 28 | At each village they came to Murtach halted the company and paused to talk to the headman . |
| 29 | As Danny Gardiner was led to the Security van , he paused to talk of the outcome : |
| 30 | Beckoning Robert to a seat , he continued to talk into the mouthpiece about the school , about its playing-fields , its concert hall and several other items that , so far at any rate , existed only in his imagination . |