Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] talk [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , kind of you to have come out to talk to me . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 4 | It was clear that this was not what she had come here to talk about . |
| 5 | so you would actually be talking to economists , lawyers and accountants , and very often you had a feeling that the first time they had come together to talk to each other was when the CNAA arrived . |
| 6 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |
| 7 | But to be safe he had promised not to talk of their meetings . |
| 8 | However to judge by the veteran abolitionist Lushington 's intervention in the 1831 debate the powerful demand for immediatism from abolitionists in the country was still somewhat muffled in parliament ; he approved of it if understood as , measures immediately brought in now and adopted which might lead to the gradual extinction of slavery' ; Buxton had avoided completely talking of immediate emancipation . |
| 9 | We had agreed not to talk about fitting-out problems and we lay in the sun drinking from the bottle Iain had humped up in his backpack . |
| 10 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 11 | My friend had wanted specifically to talk to a specialist , so she could make up her own mind about surgery . |
| 12 | He had gone on to talk of his brother , killed five years earlier in Northern Ireland : |
| 13 | From the ordinary subjects of casual conversation — books , recent plays , acquaintances they had in common — he had gone on to talk about himself . |
| 14 | They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP . |
| 15 | Hundreds of people from all over the world have come together to talk about elves , hobbits and dragons . |
| 16 | ‘ He could , of course , from the son 's own appearance , have deduced that the father must be at least in his late sixties or seventies and he could , of course , have called in to talk to the father personally when he drove round to have a look at the property . |
| 17 | To my knowledge , cranks and dreamers have gone around talking about and looking for Homo superior ever since the primitive times when writers still used paper . |