Example sentences of "[adv prt] talking [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOU 'RE BETTER OFF TALKING TO BARCLAYS |
| 2 | YOU 'RE BETTER OFF TALKING TO BARCLAYS |
| 3 | ‘ If you wish to sit up talking with Claudine , however , or walk with her in the moonlight … ’ |
| 4 | Ignoring for the moment the force of the word ‘ really ’ in this argument , we can still feel confident that even if we give up talking of knowledge , granting that a necessary condition for knowing is unfulfilled , we can happily continue to talk about justified belief , distinguishing some beliefs as justified or as more justified than others and others as less justified or even completely unjustified . |
| 5 | Feelings , the Collector now suspected , were just as important as ideas , though young Fleury no longer appeared to think so for he had given up talking of civilization as a " beneficial disease " ; he had discovered the manly pleasures to be found in inventing things , in making things work , in getting results , in cause and effect . |
| 6 | If the House were to follow Palmerston blindly , they ‘ might as well give up talking about science and art and the beautification of the metropolis ’ . |
| 7 | The Americans and British , intent on not getting stuck in the town , wandered in and out talking of electricity and sanitation , then said they would send a few soldiers for a short time . |
| 8 | I do n't know how much they really enjoyed it , but judging by the expressions on their faces and the way they all went out talking about Dawn , I think it went down well . |
| 9 | Skinny old men stood around talking in groups , or counted up their change for a visit to the rum shop . |
| 10 | She carried on talking about Dohti for around six months , and then it stopped . |
| 11 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 12 | He went on talking of peace , but he had become a man who had allowed Britain 's major industry to be decimated and embittered . |
| 13 | That evening the periti were thanked for their help , and urged to go on talking to bishops now that they had learned to do so . |
| 14 | The man ignored him and carried on talking to Michael . |
| 15 | Trevor went on talking to Derek : ‘ The Luctians preserve Vascar limbs , ’ he said . |
| 16 | In all this discussion , whether I am moving round talking to pairs of students at work or talking to the whole group , I see my role as provoking thought and reflection , not as telling students what to think or do . |