Example sentences of "[adv] talking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spent most of the next half hour or so talking about the extended holiday to Patagonia she was planning , in an extremely loud voice and with an enthusiasm that would probably have embarrassed the Argentinian Tourist Board . |
| 2 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 3 | And to hear members opposite talking about the dead hand of bureaucracy and all these Tebbitite notions that oh Europe , y'know , I mean , y'know , we 're going all the way back to ancient history here . |
| 4 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
| 5 | But I could not make Adèle concentrate on her lessons because she was constantly talking about the presents Mr Rochester had promised to bring her . |
| 6 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 7 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 8 | Panslavists were soon talking of the Congress as a conspiracy against the Russian people . |
| 9 | I was soon talking on the telephone to Engelberger in Danbury , Connecticut . |
| 10 | I am not talking with the benefit of hindsight when I say his success has not surprised me . |
| 11 | In the first part of The Form , language is used to denote action and inner states that are immediately recognisable so that , for instance , cleanness of mouth is defined as not talking for the sake of it and telling no lies ( c.5 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not talking to the cat . |
| 13 | " But I 'm not talking to the top of your head . |
| 14 | After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts . |
| 15 | ‘ You know what you 've got , not talking on the telephone , ’ the foreman said . |
| 16 | It was partly because these artificial agglomerations soon broke up that we were left at the finish with a lot of little scraps , which nobody , when not talking through the back of his head , could mistake for potential nations . |
| 17 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 18 | Now , by loneliness I am not talking about the absence of friends and occasional breaks from people . |
| 19 | ‘ I was not talking about the box alone . |
| 20 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 21 | But we are not talking about the abstract . |
| 22 | And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar . |
| 23 | ICI is not talking about the platelets . |
| 24 | People can go on communicating for hours on end , but if they are not talking about the really important issue , the time is not well spent . |
| 25 | I 'm not talking about the Maria Colwell … |
| 26 | And I said I 'm not talking about the council , I 'm talking about the N R A ! |
| 27 | I am not talking about the absence of an ad hoc electrical connection or about the presence of other things , either specifically or under some general description or by some general means , when I make the conditional statement . |
| 28 | If we say that characterising the topic framework is a means of making explicit some of the assumptions a speaker can make about his hearer 's knowledge , we are not talking about the total knowledge which the speaker believes he shares with his hearer . |
| 29 | I am not talking about the ongoing struggle towards black liberation , for there is much more to the emancipation of blacks than opposition to racism . |
| 30 | We 're not talking about local authority homes , we are not talking about the voluntary sector , we are talking about the private homes which are run by private companies , or individuals , not on a voluntary basis , but on a profit basis . |