Example sentences of "to talk [prep] [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools frequently hold meetings to talk with parents about changes in the curriculum or the ways that help can be given at home to help children 's learning . |
| 2 | As her confidence grew , Constance began to talk with animation about her job at Maison de Levantiére , life with Louise and even some of her difficulties with her mother . |
| 3 | Chris Whittaker who will be on stage this afternoon to talk in detail about governors so I wo n't dwell too long on the subject . |
| 4 | No chance to talk to Mum about the bike I dream of day and night ! |
| 5 | It was obvious now that Isobel should be the person to talk to Anna about this job in Pricewell 's . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying that it is necessarily trivialising to talk to interviewees about their clothes , it 's just that you do n't find the male presenters on Rock Steady talking to Phil Collins about his suits ! |
| 7 | Many teenage children feel unable to talk to parents about intimate or emotional issues but it is important to be ready to talk , if they show that they want to . |
| 8 | He had tried once already to talk to Nicholas about it , and had been kicked on the ankle by le Grant . |
| 9 | His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well . |
| 10 | Always very hard to talk to Vaughan about things like that , because you asked a straight forward and he goes way , way , over the head |
| 11 | Baldwin and both women agreed in court not to talk to newspapers about the case . |
| 12 | Most companies are willing to give customers the best service they can , and virtually all suppliers interviewed stressed their eagerness to talk to caterers about their individual needs to as to match the right product to the right task . |
| 13 | Coolly , she said , ‘ I wanted to talk to Adam about something . |
| 14 | I 've started to talk to Alan about what I see as a lack of , of management time erm in this division . |
| 15 | Well he ought to talk to Nicola about that . |
| 16 | An unemployed lift engineer 's mate , Darren Webb , 25 , of Colchester , also appreciated the opportunity to talk to people about the various training and job schemes available rather than having to rely on leaflets . |
| 17 | Some of them are people that erm that I 've generally had contact with , in terms of starting to talk to people about it erm , other people are being kind of , what 's the word , optimistic , with the truth Likes And The Brides for example , erm |
| 18 | Erm I do look for opportunities to talk to people about God but I , I certainly think that you have to wait for the right opportunity because , if people are ill or very down , then it often is n't the right time when they 're vulnerable erm to try and erm talk to them about something . |
| 19 | Anybody over forty I say it is a legitimate time to talk to people about self employment . |
| 20 | ‘ I think in any rural town it ought to be possible to find an hour or so to stroll round , just to talk to people about this and that . |
| 21 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 22 | He had still not been able to talk to Majorie about the adoption . |
| 23 | The largest scale intervention was the VISTA programme , which consisted of women scientists and technologists visiting schools to talk to children about an aspect of their jobs already being covered in the school science syllabus . |
| 24 | He does n't want to talk to John about Disneyland , but knows he must . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to talk to Gog about rain , I can tell you that . |
| 26 | An official of the Archbishop of Canterbury is attacking the Government for refusing to talk to Syria about British hostages in Lebanon . |
| 27 | You wanted me to talk to Mother about her investments , about making money over to de Chavigny . |
| 28 | I tried to talk to Branwell about it , but it was impossible . |
| 29 | Whilst Benedicta described Ursula and her malevolent sow , Athelstan felt tempted to talk to Vincentius about the desecration of the cemetery but concluded it was not a topic suitable for the table . |
| 30 | It would , she felt , atone for the things she had said and mean that she did not have to talk to Julia about them . |