Example sentences of "[coord] talk a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tremayne listened a bit and talked a bit and then gave me the receiver again . |
| 2 | ‘ We congregated at certain bookshops and talked a lot about books . |
| 3 | He did not always understand my French , but he showed me round the school , and talked a lot , very fast . |
| 4 | Then the excuse for a trip had turned up , and they 'd driven down to Stranraer in a trail of tourist cars , and she 'd played cassettes and talked a little in her soft English voice , while he sat there hardly believing his luck . |
| 5 | As for me I 'm the most successful because I can box a little , punch a little , strut a little and talk a little . |
| 6 | Now he is known best for writing and talking a good match . |
| 7 | Everything at Berbera was unfamiliar and exciting : the barren , burnt-up countryside , so very different from the highlands of Abyssinia ; the camel herds at the wells ; the gaunt , half-naked Somalis with great mops of hair , leaning on their spears and talking a harsh incomprehensible language ; the bugle calls ; the uniformed troops drilling on their parade ground , and especially an evening when they staged for us a realistic attack with blank ammunition on a position " held " by tribesmen . |
| 8 | She answers him sternly and literally , but talks a great deal more and more fluently than usual . |