Example sentences of "talk in the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He learnt how to talk in the car on the way home , even when he did n't want to ; he learnt how to take a shower in somebody else 's bathroom without embarrassing himself . |
| 2 | In the end , I judged the best option to be to talk in the privacy of his room , thus giving him the opportunity to ponder his new situation in solitude once I took my leave . |
| 3 | So Mr talked in the debate about internal reorganisation about continuing to provide services for which there is an over provision and it berated me and the Labour group for that . |
| 4 | But for decades such scenes were done in the studio : if you think of the scene between the brothers Charley ( Rod Steiger ) and Terry ( Marlon Brando ) in On the Waterfront ( 1953 ) , as they talk in the back of a limo , the background of night-time streets has to be there and be moving ; but it 's only partly visible ( and the cars of the 1930s and '40s had small rear windows ) and becomes dramatically significant only after Terry has left the car . |
| 5 | ‘ Macrobius would be the man to try ‘ etc ) This is certainly how dons talk in the novels of Dorothy L. Sayers . |
| 6 | It seems surprising , but there is n't much talk in the refuge about marriage or men . |
| 7 | The two of them stayed sitting and talking in the kitchen for an hour or so longer , and then , at about six o'clock , Matilda said goodnight and set out to walk home to her parent 's house , which was about an eight-minute journey away . |
| 8 | At any rate , the night 's most repeatable joke concerned the three bairns talking in the playground about whose dad had the fastest job . |
| 9 | Mr Ridley added that he was talking in the context of the national good . |
| 10 | Now he was talking in the context of er of of a , er but it is something that I think the government does need to look at because given the nature of multi-national companies or even the nature of public companies and private companies in this country where there is a public interest , not just in efficiency but also in probity . |
| 11 | Ellen was still awake , talking in the stateroom with Rickie , but everyone else seemed asleep . |
| 12 | And , with a horrified shudder , it occurred to Folly that if she stayed any longer in the corridor she might hear more than talking in the room beyond the door . |