Example sentences of "talked of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They talked of many things . |
| 2 | ‘ Before dinner on that fatal night , ’ said Gwendolen between sniffs , ‘ we talked of many things . |
| 3 | In an address on Virgil which he gave in September of this year , he talked of certain men , like Aeneas , who are elected to a special destiny . |
| 4 | ’ ‘ Will you give me your word you 'll sign ? ’ he asked ; and when I replied ‘ Yes ’ , we talked of other things . |
| 5 | During the meal , as if by mutual consent , they talked of other things , but it was difficult . |
| 6 | We talked of other things . |
| 7 | However , I thought too much excitement was not good for him , so I talked of other things , and made him laugh a little . |
| 8 | They talked of other things as they approached Blacklion , parts of Ireland they both knew , the parts they liked the best . |
| 9 | He talked of each country 's right to ‘ freedom of choice ’ . |
| 10 | They sat down against the summerhouse wall and talked of each others activities over the last nine years . |
| 11 | It took place on Friday , 10 September , and only between Johnson and Boswell ; Johnson talked of four people , Richard Bentley , David Mallet , the Duchess of Marlborough and Joseph Hooke . |
| 12 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |
| 13 | Afterwards , alone with Berdichev and Douglas , he talked of minor things , concealing his pleasure that his scheme had their sanction and — more important — their financial backing . |
| 14 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 15 | They talked of hereditary occupations in the Highlands ; the rigour of church rules and creeds ; they looked at Latin books , and tiptoed around a delicate matter — whether Johnson the Anglican might wish to hear Mr MacAulay say their Presbyterian prayers in the household , which Boswell doubted . |
| 16 | Breeze complied , and they talked of trivial matters until her fixed regard took effect . |
| 17 | The younger men amongst the Jews often roared with laughter when the older men , the original immigrants , talked of some experience or incident , for the young bucks were first generation British and educated . |
| 18 | They talked of interesting things ; ship-building , the invasion of England , cannon , the path newly discovered west to the Indies , chess , dogs , the king 's mistress . |
| 19 | Joyful reunion may make South African history : Albertina Sisulu and Nelson Mandela talked of old times and new strategy , she told John Carlin at her home in Soweto |
| 20 | We talked of old times and what might happen in the future . ’ |
| 21 | We talked of old days and new ways — and living alone . |
| 22 | He talked of spontaneous fusion under pressure e.g. . |
| 23 | And they still trooped in and out of his house occasionally , looking at him pityingly , as they talked of foreign films , the latest play at the Royal Court and the need for the immediate withdrawal of armed forces from Nicaragua . |
| 24 | This was very much the implication which was drawn from Darwin 's work by those anthropologists who published immediately after The Origin of Species , so that they enthusiastically talked of natural selection and the survival of the fittest in their outlines of human history . |
| 25 | He talked of natural justice . |