Example sentences of "he talked of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he talked of the hostages or the contras something of the old fire returned , together with the old emotional lines from cabinet meetings and television speeches . |
| 2 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 3 | He talked of the misery of his marriage to his wife , and the evil character of you , Monks , his only son , who had been brought up by your mother to hate him . |
| 4 | He talked of the magnitude and hurtfulness of defeat . |
| 5 | He talked of the excellence of Mortimer at Exeter , formerly a professor at Oxford . |
| 6 | He talked of the need for an economic policy as well as a tax policy ; he reintroduced the notion of full employment into Labour 's vocabulary ; and he stressed that workers needed not just rights , but also the opportunity to become wealth producers . |
| 7 | He talked of the future ; he made light of the present and its difficulties until Lucy lost sight of them too . |
| 8 | He talked of the language going to pieces " before our eyes " . |
| 9 | He talked of the Governor Support Unit and I 'd like to remind Councillor and his group that they were responsible for taking over a hundred posts out of the administrative section of . |