Example sentences of "talk [prep] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just as those who are young feel the need to talk about and prepare for earlier important events , such as their wedding , or their children 's christenings , it is quite normal and not at all macabre for some old people to want to look ahead and plan for the ritual and display of family love and unity that will take place on the day of their departure from this world . |
| 2 | Most concrete of all , most easy to talk about and to understand was the diet . |
| 3 | We have always loved to talk about and look at ourselves , as anyone who has watched or seen on TV home videos of family life can tell you . |
| 4 | It may seem at times that there is little common ground between the two generations , but if a parent is patient and ready to take an interest , and to listen as well as to give advice or pass criticism , there is plenty to talk about and share together . |
| 5 | And for that you 'll need to talk about and share your feelings . |
| 6 | The work of psychiatrists such as Maxwell Jones , who established the first therapeutic community , shows that the nurse who is given time to talk with and listen to patients is a most potent healing force for the human spirit . |
| 7 | These and others ; schoolteachers , students , the.police , media , and even researchers , are welcome , if only , ‘ to show kids that there are other adults besides teachers around the place prepared to talk with and listen to them ’ . |
| 8 | 6.1 Even at this later hour the Trade Union has illustrated it 's willingness to talk to and avoid confrontation . |
| 9 | The best one to talk to and get something done is erm |
| 10 | I 'm a Libran , I like people around me to talk to and argue with . |
| 11 | At our next meeting we were able to have a long chat , I found very frank and easy to talk to and felt very much that a two way supportive relationship developed quite quickly , as opposed to supporter-supportee ( does this word exist ? ) . is now 14 months old and we have contrived to get together on a regular basis . |
| 12 | someone to talk to and confide in ; |
| 13 | Research has shown that having someone to talk to and confide in is an important factor in preventing depression . |
| 14 | The strain of caring for a disturbed relative can be considerable and the need for an understanding and reliable friend to talk to and share the anxieties with is often very great . |
| 15 | Counsellors are available to talk to and advise individuals and couples about marital or partnership problems , preparing for marriage and parenthood . |
| 16 | Counsellors are available to talk to and advise individuals and couples about marital or partnership problems , preparing for marriage and parenthood . |
| 17 | We are very grateful to the British Council for arranging these visits , and to all those who so willingly gave of their time to talk to and entertain us . |
| 18 | It is a phantasmagorical performance , perfected over many years in advertising in which the prime requisite — apart from , or in spite of , talent — is to get yourself noticed , talked about and sought after . |
| 19 | They thought as I thought , and cancer and one kidney was something to be talked about and shared . |
| 20 | The improvement of the quality of work performed by criminal justice personnel through improved training has been much talked about and advocated since at least my own days as a trainee assistant governor almost thirty years ago , and probably well before that . |
| 21 | This is why a child who grows up in an atmosphere where artistic beauty is in evidence and talked about and striven after has an enormous advantage over the child from a background of visual ugliness in which people are innocent of any artistic discernment . |
| 22 | While they ate he made polite conversation , avoiding with care any of the deeper , more important issues that needed to be talked about and resolved . |
| 23 | Penny was a very active shoot on the hospital grapevine , and Juliet did n't want her mother 's operation talked about and discussed . |
| 24 | Anything and everything happens around the kitchen table , and if anything nasty occurs , it is aired , talked about and solved . |
| 25 | My own experience , backed up by that of field workers I have talked with and beginning to be supported by some research evidence suggests that other factors such as personal maturity and the will and opportunity to keep up to date are even more important . |
| 26 | Some of the children had been talked to and examined , but nothing was found . |
| 27 | Perhaps twenty times a week each one has to confront a dead body ; they have to meet , talk with and help relatives and friends cope with the practical arrangements posed by the death . |
| 28 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 29 | Forget the cameras and everyone else in the studio and talk to and look at the interviewer or the members of the panel . |
| 30 | For a moment she was afraid that David was going to ask her what on earth she was talking about and tell her that she had completely misunderstood his elliptical declaration , but he did not . |