Example sentences of "talk [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Len arrived , they seemed for some reason to talk about nothing but health . |
| 2 | He was not , I knew , a person to talk about himself and his emotions . |
| 3 | He wanted no publicity and he did not want to talk about himself . |
| 4 | From the ordinary subjects of casual conversation — books , recent plays , acquaintances they had in common — he had gone on to talk about himself . |
| 5 | I tried once or twice to reverse our roles , but he again made it clear that he did not want to talk about himself I said nothing about the glove . |
| 6 | She hoped he was n't , for he always seemed to talk about himself and kept Connie largely silent , which meant that no one else present had any amusement at all . |
| 7 | Of all the things the Welsh MPs have got to talk about they decided public toilets are the most important . |
| 8 | Strangers bend their heads together to talk about me . |
| 9 | ‘ I wo n't get a fellow , I 'm from nowhere , a decent fellow would n't be able to talk about me and where I came from . |
| 10 | I do n't want to talk about me either , but just be what you are . |
| 11 | But then , Moray 's friends began to talk about me and Riccio . |
| 12 | And if you start to talk about me giving up and coming home with you , it ends right there . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You want to talk about me ? ’ he taunted softly . |
| 14 | ‘ So you 're going to talk about me ? ’ |
| 15 | But she knew he was there , because she remembered thinking how mean his mother was to talk about him . |
| 16 | We did n't use to talk about him like we did the others . ) |
| 17 | Why do you want to talk about him |
| 18 | He was evasive about Rob too ; almost as if he had n't wanted to talk about him . |
| 19 | I had had to talk about him to someone to ease my mind . |
| 20 | He likes me to talk about him . |
| 21 | They both avoided mentioning John though Anne longed to talk about him . |
| 22 | " I do n't want to talk about him . " |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't care to talk about him — not to you , not to nobody . ’ |
| 24 | It was remarkable how many eminent names had allowed themselves to be woken up in the middle of the night to talk about him . |
| 25 | ‘ How many times do I have to tell you that I do n't want to talk about him ? ’ |
| 26 | Wanted to talk about him , to be part of the mourning , of the cleansing ceremony . |
| 27 | She wanted to talk about him , but she could not . |
| 28 | John is tucked up at home : they want to talk about him . |
| 29 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 30 | We which I would hope when will itemise the qualities and strengths of the child that you want to cover , like when we do personal statements or joint statements in the tenth and eleventh year that if the form teacher just ca n't write well Fred 's worked very well , he 's done extremely well in English we 'll actually start to talk about him as an individual and his strengths and weaknesses . |