Example sentences of "for talk [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example of a punishing event would be a child at school who is reprimanded for talking during lessons . |
| 2 | You will not want to reprove any children for talking during your speech . |
| 3 | Steve Holden and Wendy relaxed in what was a quieter atmosphere after being assaulted by an irate opera buff in the row behind for talking during the performance . |
| 4 | And it was fine when Busacher was paying him attention , rebuking him for talking during someone else 's numbers , railing at him for rudeness , for lack of participation . |
| 5 | Sports commentators had what many came to consider the most enviable job in the world ; they had the best seats for the best events in return for talking about what they loved anyway . |
| 6 | Gaver sees the possibility of establishing a new framework for talking about sound . |
| 7 | Dialects , we should remember , are essentially local to particular parts of a particular country , and specialized for talking about local and domestic life … . |
| 8 | Formula for talking about relationships |
| 9 | Dorcas used to talk about wiggly electricity in the same tone of voice Gurder used for talking about Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) . |
| 10 | because making a thing of it creates the wrong atmosphere for talking about sex ( justification of opinion ) . |
| 11 | It is obvious that the gender-dichotomising tendency goes deep , and that our languages are implicated in it ( males and females have different given names , different address titles , different pronouns … ) but it is perhaps less obvious that our metalanguages — the systems we use for talking about language , including grammatical categories — are implicated too . |
| 12 | ANGRY : Jerry got a blast from Mick ( left ) for talking about their love split |
| 13 | Each unit has a ‘ Let's Talk ’ section with model conversations for talking about the games and puzzles , and a ‘ Let's Write ’ section with written exercises . |
| 14 | Psychoanalysis provides at least a language for talking about these matters , and contains useful speculative hypotheses . |
| 15 | Or he may have an inadequate understanding of how language works and lack a terminology for talking about it . |
| 16 | The language for talking about the undergraduate curriculum already exists ; it is a matter of using it . |
| 17 | I was savagely attacked by a philosopher of science for talking about imaginary time . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you think this is a punishment from God for talking about walking on a Sunday , Uncle Rory ? ’ |
| 19 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 20 | Try to focus on the positive , on what a scene did achieve rather than what it did n't ; give them a vocabulary for talking about the work . |
| 21 | But I think the more important reason for talking about the Ministry of the New Church , or the Ministry of the Church is because of the erm developing needs and the developing thoughts and ideas which are actually additions which are the , the crucial area where ministry takes place . |
| 22 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 23 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 24 | Thank you very much , Jim , for talking about this research . |
| 25 | One was notorious for talking on stage , to the annoyance of the principals who were desperate to get the attention of the audience . |
| 26 | Because over the coming months I suspect that as a result of the E P A you are going to be called on more and more for information , for putting out press releases , for talking to people , for talking on the telephone , I mean , every single newspaper now seems to have an environmental reporter , and you 're going to be , I suspect , right in the forefront of it . |
| 27 | He is not impressed by the Prince because of who he is , but because of the man he is : because of his gift for talking to people , his tenacity and his courage in confronting problems that other men would shy away from . |
| 28 | There was space enough for an office for the two solicitors , a room for the visiting advocates from Edinburgh to work in , and a meeting room for talking to parents , specialist advisers , and witnesses . |
| 29 | Obviously , BT 's hope is that once they 're hooked , companies will adopt EDI for talking to their trading partners , as well as to Customs . |
| 30 | Tragic Jim ‘ Tosh ’ Burton told her : ‘ I actually feel better for talking to you . ’ |