Example sentences of "and talked about " in BNC.

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1 He admired it and talked about the artist 's meaning , and the noble ideas he attributed to him .
2 But before the end of the conversation he realized how vocation pulled Ramsey towards Durham , and talked about ‘ a theological bishop ’ and did not discourage .
3 Few animals inspire such extremes of love and hate as the fox , and this may go some way towards explaining why so much nonsense is written and talked about them .
4 In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much .
5 And how Gazzer had interrupted them and talked about these old World War II pill-boxes as good hidingplaces … .
6 Everyone bundled their possessions together and talked about where they would like to stay .
7 The therapist did n't attempt to persuade me that I had nothing to fear ; instead , every week I sat in her calm , warm room and talked about my family , my friendships , my feelings about myself , my ambitions .
8 If Iran-contra had lodged in the nation 's mind at all , it was in terms of North and his testimony : that piece of film everyone had seen and talked about , like the shooting of JR in Dallas or the opening on Geraldo of Al Capone 's secret vault .
9 Sometimes old men sat together and talked about history and genealogy , presenting history to fellow-producers , and discussion could be lively .
10 On the night of her husband 's funeral she had overcome her usual reticence and talked about their married life .
11 Svend thanked her warmly and talked about next year ; she would see the exhibit then , and he would welcome any suggestions she had for its display .
12 The guests greedily snuffed cocaine , ate platefuls of designer salad , listened to Amelia 's Jean-Michel Jarre CDs , smoked ordinary cigarettes and weedy joints , and talked about cars and mortgage rates and money and dry rot and Eastern Europe and computers and their weight and Christmas and sex .
13 She demonstrated a number of instruments from her large collection and talked about how to introduce children to music .
14 For our part , we all sat in a cellar and talked about other things ( I think ) .
15 Perhaps this was what those few loud-mouthed rabbit-eyed creatures who dropped their bombs at the first flak and then came back and talked about the target area had felt like .
16 When we were younger and talked about this as our retirement home , people tended to laugh and think we were being pessimistic thinking so far ahead .
17 Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 .
18 Pictures then , if they are to be understood and enjoyed , need to be talked about , and talked about most profitably with a more-experienced reader .
19 Squares , circles , triangles and rectangles soon become familiar terms when shapes are regularly used and talked about .
20 Off-cuts of ‘ interesting ’ woods or ornate wooden strips for picture frames can be collected and put out to be handled , looked at and talked about .
21 Eva and Charlie and I had a drink and talked about other things .
22 It was soon evident that she was besotted with little Hilary , and talked about him incessantly .
23 So , although it is tragic that every therapist is now hearing more and more from their patients about the way they were abused in the past , the fact that it is being brought out into the open and talked about publicly does bring some relief to those who until recently thought that their case was an isolated one .
24 After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing .
25 Would you have put on your disapproving hat and talked about tangled webs and reaping what you sow ?
26 In their search for a market for great stores of goods , the capitalists screamed about the necessity of putting Germany on its feet , Austria on its feet , Russia on its feet , and talked about granting credits which would enable those countries to purchase from us , so clearing our markets and setting our industries going .
27 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 .
28 Workwear shoes and clothing were being shipped in to Britain by a handful of people and then being worn and talked about by a few dozen more .
29 Often it can be a great relief to a young child that issues are being brought out into the open and talked about .
30 TV newsreader Fiona Armstrong met new colleague Michael Wilson yesterday — and talked about going to bed .
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