Example sentences of "[noun sg] talking [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might concede that it is indeed absurd to pretend that in asserting an existential proposition we are in effect talking about all the things in the world . |
| 2 | " A nice girl talking like that , " he said , watching her . |
| 3 | The first part of the dream involved being in a room talking to some friends . |
| 4 | Many were there for more than three hours , but Hannah always gives full value for this kind of sacrifice talking to each one for between five and fifteen minutes and writing in the book whatever message is asked for . |
| 5 | There 's this woman talking to this bloke . |
| 6 | It 's no use talking to that , because |
| 7 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 8 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |
| 9 | He made a lot of sense talking about that tip and obviously persuaded people to change their viewpoint . ’ |
| 10 | However , before we go any further with this rather depressing picture it is important to underline that we are not of course talking about all people over retirement age in some blanket category of dwindling power . |
| 11 | He has therefore used local newspaper cuttings as well photographs and spent a considerable time talking to some of the senior members of the club to produce the book . |
| 12 | Athletics is the most successful sport in Britain and we should spend more time talking about that . ’ |
| 13 | He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’ |
| 14 | I 'd just like to remind Councillor of one or two things and then spend a little bit of time talking about some of the gimmicks that the Tories have introduced over this past ten years . |
| 15 | Er we have n't spent a lot of time talking about some of those things today but it 's all been done . |
| 16 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |