Example sentences of "talk [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just I 'm just going to I 'm just going to talk about the second thing anyway . |
| 2 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 3 | Explaining one of the sections of their manifesto in the preface to the exhibition at Bernheim 's , the Futurists , now aware of Cubist painting , talked for the first time of ‘ battles of planes ’ ; and Boccioni summarizes most concisely the debt of Futurism to Cubism when in Pittura Scultura Futuriste , published in 1914 , he wrote under the heading ‘ Compenetrazione dei Piani ’ : ‘ It is the pictorial method of rendering movement in a painting , making the surrounding objects fuse with the structure of the object placed in their midst ’ . |
| 4 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke came in and talked about the first night of Gielgud 's Prospero ( ‘ Doing it again , dear ’ at the National . |
| 5 | We talked for the first time about poetry , poets and our own poems : |
| 6 | ‘ It was the talk of the set — the rumour monitors were working overtime , ’ Jim said yesterday as he talked for the first time about the couple 's whirlwind romance . |
| 7 | TAGGART star Mark McManus talked for the first time yesterday about a heartbreak series of family tragedies . |
| 8 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 9 | That night in the library of his house , Leithen talked about the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | ‘ When they came in they talked of the first team and it seemed an offer I could n't refuse ; with hindsight , I should never have gone . ’ |
| 11 | 1979 ; Wells 1981 ) have reported that the amount of talk by children and their caretakers varies , both in respect of the time of day ( more talk first thing in the morning and early afternoon ) and as a function of their familiarity with the process of being recorded ( less talk on the first day , compared with subsequent days ) . |
| 12 | Talk to the next person but really you 're talking to there say and they do it back to you , but erm Oh so he did n't , he wo n't be going again then ? |
| 13 | Talking for the first time about his ordeal , Brian says : ‘ They left me in no doubt I was a leading suspect . |
| 14 | Kelly was talking for the first time since Brentford striker Blissett was acquitted of assaulting Torquay defender John Uzzell last week . |
| 15 | The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened . |
| 16 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 17 | Saxton was talking for the first time since being sent home from Barcelona for taking the drug Clenbuterol . |
| 18 | Were they talking about the first steamship crossing the Atlantic ? |
| 19 | So you could not just be talking about the first premium . |
| 20 | I am talking about the first attempt to amend regulation 72 to exclude supplementary benefit and national assistance from the scope of that regulation . |
| 21 | So I think I 'm actually talking about the fourth world . |
| 22 | No one this time was talking about the next fight . |
| 23 | ‘ So we 're talking about the next century . ’ |
| 24 | Everyone was looking forwards , talking of the twentieth century a mere six years ahead . |
| 25 | Such strict training was given by Tiller that none of his dancers would have contemplated talking in the first place . |
| 26 | When she was a girl , she could lie in bed and hear her mother and father talking in the next room . |
| 27 | When you do n't know where to begin your investigation about your family , she had said , start talking to the last generation back , then the one before if there are any survivors . |