Example sentences of "[pers pn] talk [prep] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you leave work and someone you 're very fond of has died , I talk about it to my mum . |
| 2 | I talked about it with my art teacher . |
| 3 | ‘ I talked about it with friends and they always knew someone who had been through it who were twice the men they were before , ’ said Mr Morton , 59 . |
| 4 | I think the more people you talk about it to about it the better , especially people who are in it , |
| 5 | There was no emotion in my voice , that 's how it is with people who 've been abused , you talk about it as if you 're just calmly stating a fact . |
| 6 | No questions , no but you 've obviously covered everything , you talk about it with such enthusiasm . |
| 7 | Talking about privatising the National Health Service and opting out of the National Health Service is not actually very helpful because people do n't believe that , they do n't believe it 's er N H S P L C. They do not , it is not a British Gas , it is not a British Telecom , they know it 's not and it devalues your argument if you talk of it in those terms , and it allows Waldergrave to stand up and to renounce and reject your statements and weaken your case . |
| 8 | She rejoiced in being free from the place , but she talked of it with comprehension and critical affection . |
| 9 | She talked about it to her twin , and on Martha 's advice tried new ways to please Harry . |
| 10 | Were you talking about it in relation to death or arrhythmic events ? |
| 11 | But if you want a baby , why do n't you talk about it with your boyfriend ? |
| 12 | That is the first appearance of the dog , a delicate insertion ; afterwards , Emma holds its head and kisses it ( as Gustave had done to Nero/Thabor ) : the dog has a melancholy expression , and she talks to it as if to someone in need of consolation . |
| 13 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 14 | We talked about it at the time ( since journos are often good sources of information for drivers ) and it was quite clear there was only one place Mario could even think of going : Ferrari . |
| 15 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
| 16 | Shall we talk about it over that cup of tea ? ’ |
| 17 | Once they talked of it in the village shop , the whole village would know by nightfall . |
| 18 | They talked about it on the way down in Goblander . |
| 19 | They talk about it as an expenditure and not as an investment . |
| 20 | They talk about it as if that 's such a long period , and yet it seems like yesterday when my last one came out , but you do n't realise it 's that long ; you do n't sit round watching the calendar . |
| 21 | She knew that dead people could be kept in this state because the man who lived next door to Mrs MacDonagh worked in an undertakers , and Ellie had heard him talking about it to Mrs MacDonagh . |
| 22 | But to avoid this return to voluntarism he must have in mind some further conception of strategy , and it is not surprising to find him talking about it in what might be called its objective sense : the strategy of a class — the course of action which will best enable it to gain power over other classes — is estimated in the light of its objective interests and its position in a formation , and is detached from the beliefs and aspirations of its members . |
| 23 | ‘ I heard them talking about it at home . |
| 24 | They talked sex , the way he talked about it to many people with whom he grew close in a working relationship . |
| 25 | Six years later , when he talked about it in his house in Basel , he still believed it , and with absolute conviction . |
| 26 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |