Example sentences of "talk [prep] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I thought I 'll give him something to talk about at the garage .
2 The Green Party Conference drew to a close today and they certainly had something to talk about with the publication of the government 's White Paper on the environment .
3 In its pubs — all two of them — the locals now have more to talk about along the bar counter than the weather and the fishing .
4 And in its pubs — all two of them — the locals have more to talk about along the bar counter than the weather and the fishing .
5 But , more importantly , a Smiths gig is merely part of a night out , something to talk about in the pub afterwards .
6 ‘ Because it makes a good story , something to talk about in the pubs . ’
7 There was always something to talk about in the dressing-room .
8 Okay is there anybody else that you would need to talk to about the recommendations that I 've just given to you ?
9 He 'll decide whom to talk to between the factory gate and the office .
10 He had drawn up a long list of people she ought to talk to during the day : fashion houses , designers , a couple of artists ' studios , a gallery specializing in contemporary prints .
11 You can always be sure of finding someone to talk to at the Kamara .
12 The trouble was that if you permitted intimacy you would be thought of as ‘ cheap ’ and perhaps be talked about as the girls at the dance had talked about Paula , only by the boys , which was worse , but if you did n't no boy would be prepared to bother with you for long .
13 ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team .
14 Once specified , these problem behaviours can be talked about to the child and clear guidelines given about what is expected and what is going to happen if the child continues to misbehave .
15 Cosloy , impressed , invited the band over to play at this summer 's New Music Seminar in New York , where they pulled apart the Knitting Factory with a glorious show that proved to be one of the most talked about of the week .
16 This is a great groove because you can superimpose the other stylistic feels we 've talked about over the groove .
17 Do you recall nationalization being an issue that was talked about in the work place , you know was it talked about in the buffets and in the union meetings and
18 Most of the schemes that are put in here are actually assessed by the area highway engineer and if you 've got particular schemes , especially ones that you know you 've talked about in the past , the best way of dealing with them is to speak to him directly and say , why is n't it in this time ?
19 None of these qualities may actually be talked about in the home .
20 Do you recall nationalization being an issue that was talked about in the work place , you know was it talked about in the buffets and in the union meetings and
21 He was a member of the only Hatters team ever to play in an FA Cup Final at Wembley — that 1959 side is still talked about in the pubs and clubs of Luton , its players accorded folk hero status .
22 The introduction of the new arrangements for Community Care are no longer something to be talked about in the future , but are happening now and involving all of us .
23 .. and a myriad of other details , talked about in the classroom , practised back in the Academy grounds and now for ‘ real ’ .
24 One last time the name is going to be talked about in the circles that bother about these things and it 's all to do with Mrs Thatcher who 's prone to say about her enemies vanity , vanity , all is vanity .
25 The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time .
26 Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes
27 Still talked about in the glens is Angus MacGillivray , an ancient who was called in to settle a territorial dispute with a neighbour .
28 And what Rémy hears may very well be talked of with the patron he 's courting .
29 She birdied the tenth , her first , but , after that promising start , the rustiness she had talked of at the start of the tournament began to manifest itself .
30 It is hardly surprising , therefore , that deposition should be mooted again — it had been talked of in the Gaveston crisis .
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