Example sentences of "talk [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because everyone who comes along to interview me has , as you have Paul , read all the clippings , then they all want to talk about the same things , and I become this kind of caricature . |
| 2 | He was going to find it rather difficult to talk for a few days , Kathleen realised . |
| 3 | You know it will be your turn to talk in a few minutes , so you can put all your energy into listening rather than trying to spot a chance to throw in your contribution . |
| 4 | A travel company from Thailand has contacted the People 's Committee about the possibility of bringing in tourists , and the governor of the province , An He , is keen to talk to the few foreigners who pass through about his hypothetical Riviera . |
| 5 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 6 | talked with a few people |
| 7 | " They talked for a few moments , and then he handed her an envelope and walked away . |
| 8 | She laughed , and we talked for a few minutes longer . |
| 9 | We talked for a few minutes and he was in great spirits . |
| 10 | change their mind , there must be there must be nine other posts that if they look round they could civilianise not I mean they have n't got to tell the public much it have they you still talk about the same amount of officers being civilianised . |
| 11 | We talk in the same way . |
| 12 | ‘ I telephoned the Blackpool office up to five times a day and never talked to the same person twice . |
| 13 | Tonight : Germany will be reunified , we talk to a former Ambassador . |
| 14 | How do you get your students to learn about Britain , explore their own culture and attitudes , and talk at the same time ? |
| 15 | And if we all talk at the same time , he ca n't hear anything . |
| 16 | I mean we are only talking about a few yards difference . |
| 17 | I know Amy went to see it when it was at the Palace , I 'm talking about a few years ago , |
| 18 | If you have editing facilities , you could edit together a succession of short " clips " of different people talking about the same subject . |
| 19 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're not talking about the same girl . ’ |
| 21 | If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving . |
| 22 | First , you will want to define the problem for yourself , but later it is equally essential to define the problem at the actual negotiation — we might as well check that we are both talking about the same problem ! |
| 23 | Again we assume that we are still talking about the same man , that he has returned home to the location where the ‘ living room ’ we first met was located . |
| 24 | Nurses should therefore discover from patients what meaning these words have for them , so that they can be sure that they and the patients are talking about the same conditions . |
| 25 | Were we talking about the same sister I wondered . |
| 26 | Another valve might help ; after all , the Marshall has a couple and the Carvin is mob-handed with a total of nine — and I 'll say it again , we 're talking about the same price range here . |
| 27 | If they build traditional houses , we 're then talking about the same amount . |
| 28 | We talking about the same Dicky ? |
| 29 | In the heat of debate , when one side may accuse the other of not knowing what they are talking about , both sides will still assume they are talking about the same thing . |
| 30 | When making a contract be sure that you are both talking about the same thing . |