Example sentences of "[be] talk " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , I judged the best option to be to talk in the privacy of his room , thus giving him the opportunity to ponder his new situation in solitude once I took my leave . |
| 2 | This may be to talk about your conversion : ‘ I used to feel similarly , but had an experience which changed my life … . ’ |
| 3 | Her remit would be to talk to social services departments , the police and the Home Office ; she would examine documents on all reported cases of ritual abuse , and draw up her report within two years . |
| 4 | The relevant considerations are ( 1 ) that to talk of an interpretation may be to talk of something one consciously does , an action ( in the Brown Book the corresponding question was whether ‘ B derived that the object shown to him was a pencil ’ [ my italics ] ) ; and ( 2 ) that the possibility of an alternative interpretation ( using the word now not to refer to an action ) may not have occurred to the person concerned . |
| 5 | I just have to wait for his letter , but I think the sensible thing to do would be to talk to you about what he 's putting you on because a lot of these drugs are not without potential side effects . |
| 6 | He liked to sit on a bench in the square and talk with , or rather be talked to by , the old retired miners . |
| 7 | Nonsense can never be talked with impunity by anyone ; and when governments solemnly talk nonsense in the name of nations , harm is certain to come of it sooner or later . |
| 8 | Afterwards , Angelo Dundee , who had trained Ali from the start and had to be talked into showing up for this one , watched him slumped in the dressing-room , then turned away and rubbed his eyes as certain people tried to convince Ali that he had been robbed and that a fourth title was still possible . |
| 9 | And told the cat Hastings , to whom she talked , because cats liked to be talked to , it comforted them , and because it comforted her , too , helped her marshal her thoughts . |
| 10 | In general it can leave children with their natural curiosity expressed by the neverending ‘ why ’ questions of childhood , being squashed by the inability of adults to discuss in any other way what has really happened , and so the child learns that whatever has really happened is just too awful to be talked about . |
| 11 | Complicated theological issues like salvation and redemption need to be talked through carefully , and at the hearer 's own pace , for then they will hear . |
| 12 | She allowed herself to be shown out , allowed herself to be talked to but said not a word . |
| 13 | As an electoral doctrine , this latter belief goes back at least to Alcibiades , who cut off his dogs ' tails so that he should be talked about ; from which little good came either to him or to Athens . |
| 14 | With heads bowed they agreed to tour the reservation , but Yellow Wolf recalled : ‘ In peace councils force must not be talked . |
| 15 | The Prince began to be talked about though this did not necessarily mean that he was being taken seriously as a political alternative to the regime of Louis-Philippe . |
| 16 | None of these qualities may actually be talked about in the home . |
| 17 | These were discussion sessions in which particular problems and clients could be talked over ; they also sometimes involved a more formal training session , with lectures on mental illness , incontinence , first aid . |
| 18 | They thought as I thought , and cancer and one kidney was something to be talked about and shared . |
| 19 | Spring , our particular spring , is always late and something to be talked about . |
| 20 | At his most impressionable , Nicholas allowed himself to be talked into publicity stunts that horribly backfired . |
| 21 | Pictures then , if they are to be understood and enjoyed , need to be talked about , and talked about most profitably with a more-experienced reader . |
| 22 | The trouble was that if you permitted intimacy you would be thought of as ‘ cheap ’ and perhaps be talked about as the girls at the dance had talked about Paula , only by the boys , which was worse , but if you did n't no boy would be prepared to bother with you for long . |
| 23 | Here there are established relationships , sizes and perceptible properties which might be talked about , without offending any child . |
| 24 | Cutting into ‘ four ’ or ‘ three ’ tends to be talked about rather than ‘ quarters ’ or ‘ thirds ’ , although fractions are sometimes used . |
| 25 | To the atmosphere generated by the yearning faithful , add the element of competing with or complementing showbizz , and a leader performs , where the marginal voter wants to be talked to . |
| 26 | THE anxious huddle that was England 's management were in full debate in the main stand at the end of a spectacle that will be talked about for decades . |
| 27 | So the possible services and what each would involve should be talked through with everyone concerned , interweaving the contributions from friends and family with available services into a coherent system of , support understood by all . |
| 28 | Once specified , these problem behaviours can be talked about to the child and clear guidelines given about what is expected and what is going to happen if the child continues to misbehave . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 30 | One word of warning , however , do n't be talked into a certain type of computer by your children . |