Example sentences of "talk [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | She allowed herself to be shown out , allowed herself to be talked to but said not a word . |
| 33 | Some of the children had been talked to and examined , but nothing was found . |
| 34 | When you are interrupted in contemplative devotion , says Hilton , do n't be angry and depressed but This is the mode by which man following a mixed life realises in himself the creative love of God — the fire of love that Rolle talked of as consuming all that is dark . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Forget the cameras and everyone else in the studio and talk to and look at the interviewer or the members of the panel . |
| 38 | If you can not accommodate them , stop talking about or expecting cross-selling — it simply can not happen . |
| 39 | Slater was silent for a second , gazing disdainfully at Graham 's snapping fingers , then he said tiredly , " Graham , either concentrate on searching for the title of the book you 're talking about or devote your full energies to practising calling for a waiter ; I 'm not convinced you possess the RAM for doing both at the same time . " |
| 40 | To begin to remedy this emotional block , start to notice when you are looking for praise or recognition , and in doing so , start talking about or bringing to someone else 's notice something you have not done so well . |
| 41 | What are we really talking about when saying we would have to reduce the numbers of staff ? |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | But it 's also erm about discovering the completeness of the ministry of the people of God as we enter through the various commitments that we have to our sister churches in Wales and in Britain and in the world , whether it 's routine or a particular relationship of members or All that 's part of the context of the ways in which we 're talking about and sharing with each other with God . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | and it will take some of those runners … a few days … a few weeks to recover but believe it or not they 're already talking about and planning next year 's race |
| 46 | ‘ They are dedicated people who clearly know what they are talking about and have guided us through it . |
| 47 | I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face . |
| 48 | What typically happens is that , in the negotiation process , one speaker realises that his version is incompatible with what the other appears to be talking about and makes his contributions compatible with ‘ what I think you ( not we ) are talking about ’ . |
| 49 | Social care in a group care setting covers the time spent talking with and listening to people , hearing their stories , nurturing and encouraging them in the effort to make sense of the later stages of life . |
| 50 | We hope that this booklet provides you with useful information to be used as a starting point — to start thinking about the issues that HIV and AIDS may raise for us in our lives and to start talking with and listening to our lovers , families , friends and colleagues in an informed , non-judgmental way . |
| 51 | The attitudinal use of intonation is something that is best acquired through talking with and listening to English speakers , and this course aims simply to train learners to be more aware of and sensitive to the way English speakers use intonation . |
| 52 | ‘ I heard from friends of mine that Hezbollah had lost faith in him , that he was talking to and seeing too many people . |
| 53 | One saw the driver talking to and touching Mrs Wilks at the emergency telephone box , the silver car parked near by . |
| 54 | Being unmarried and childless she was unaware that many quite normal women spent a great deal of time talking to and feeding people whom they would not , themselves , have chosen to entertain . |
| 55 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 56 | Teri was a high fashion catwalk model for 10 years , and spent the time between shows talking to and watching her fellow models . |
| 57 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 58 | Sun Microsystems Inc president , Scott McNealy , has been talking to and having lunch with Ray Noorda lately , chewing over what 's to become of Unix System Labs under Novell Inc . |
| 59 | Anthropologists , for example , are able to interpret a culture , at first sight inexplicable to those from a different culture , by living with , talking to and observing people in a community over a period of years . |
| 60 | The social side of bridge may be what attracts to the game but here he can neither talk to nor see He bids with specially marked chips and passes his cards through a slot at the bottom of the screen . |