Example sentences of "and talk [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke came in and talked about the first night of Gielgud 's Prospero ( ‘ Doing it again , dear ’ at the National . |
| 3 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 4 | When I last saw Mailer and talked about the impending book , the atmospherics had turned suddenly propitious . |
| 5 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 6 | How do you get your students to learn about Britain , explore their own culture and attitudes , and talk at the same time ? |
| 7 | For a terrible moment , something flared in his heart and he felt an insidious tug at his mind : how would it be to enter that Realm , and talk with the Dark Lords and learn their secrets … ? |
| 8 | At this month 's meeting members were also entertained with a slide show and talk about the volcanic eruption at Mount Helena in the United States . |
| 9 | He could sit with his very big brandies when Claire had gone to bed and talk about the Gordian Knot of the Arbuthnot relationships . |
| 10 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 11 | er if I go back one stage to the E E C and talk about the common agricultural policy . |
| 12 | Well we know , from talking to some of the school teachers involved , they go back and the kids go back and talk to the other kids in the form . |
| 13 | Go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . ’ |
| 14 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
| 15 | ‘ Why do n't you go to Australia and talk to the Vincenti woman before you start bothering us ? ’ |
| 16 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
| 17 | Thus his first action on returning to the Questura the day before had been to send his inspectors out to question the people living in the houses along the road to Cannara and talk to the local farmers , just in case anyone had seen anything . |
| 18 | So that 's worth bearing in mind , and how you handle it , I mean maybe the press officer makes an arrangement to facilitate the the actual contact , but the press officer , a good press officer is not a person who stops the press getting into an organization , a good press officer is somebody who facilitates the press getting into the organization in the right way and talking to the right people preferably about the right things , but if not the right things the wrong things to the right with the right people , if you understand what I 'm saying . |
| 19 | We 'll be talking motor racing and talking to the new Eddy Jordan Formula One team . |
| 20 | Will he consider bringing the Conservative party , and talking to the Scottish National party to bring it into the Scottish Constitutional Convention so that we can then have a genuine debate on which way the constitution of Scotland should go ? |
| 21 | And er she got it away eventually bathing it and talking to the little girl and then she said to her now I want you to come here every day she said so I can I see to that for you . |
| 22 | Kath left them at the lift , and as the doors closed she caught a glimpse of him crouching down and talking to the little lad , his warm brown eyes kindly and concerned . |
| 23 | Well we were talking about the Jordan motor racing team , and talking about the major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers Seven Up . |
| 24 | Nigel was wont to say , ‘ Before knocking the iniquities of present-day science and talking about the good old days , think about dentistry , and modern pain-killing drugs and anaesthetics . ’ |
| 25 | Felix remembered the gang of them at the beginning of the World War , with Stephen stomping around reviling the call-up , deciding on conscientious objection for himself , shaking off the hand of any acquaintance who tried to help him speed over a dangerous crossing , and talking about the anti-militarist statement he would make to the court . |
| 26 | While they were drinking their tea and talking about the filthy tap water , there was a knock on the outside door . |
| 27 | Here and now she was actually standing and talking with the great Vendelin Gajdusek ! |
| 28 | The headman 's house was already full of men , warming themselves and talking round the central fire . |
| 29 | I am not able to eat and talk at the same time , so I apologized to my neighbours for this . |
| 30 | Then , very important for people like me , we developed a secondary palette , who 's function is to allow you to eat and talk at the same time |