Example sentences of "he talks of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He talks of himself as ‘ split ’ , and as implicated in splits of a wider incidence . |
| 2 | He talks of responsibility , wrote Goldberg , half-tearing the page of his pad in his hurry to turn it over without breaking the flow of his thought , but where is his own sense of it ? |
| 3 | Sir : Timothy Garton Ash ( 'The sickly child of the cold war' , 29 September ) speaks for himself when he talks of ‘ our ideal — a larger European Community ’ . |
| 4 | Finally he talks of the trials and tribulations of garage management . |
| 5 | He talks of slavish American support for an intransigent Israel , and says this is why there is no peace . |
| 6 | Now he talks of revoking some of the freedoms , including a freer press , that the Soviet parliament brought into being last year . |
| 7 | Now the $1 billion goal has shifted to 1993 and he talks of $5 billion by 2000 . |
| 8 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 9 | He talks of forming ‘ the universal concept of a man from having seen Plato , Socrates , and others ’ . |
| 10 | He dissembles when he talks of their return , too . |
| 11 | He talks of the growing infrastructure of Glasgow 's dance music scene : the clubs , the enthusiasm , Mercury Radio pirate station recently back on air and the next move a Glaswegian record label to showcase the talents emerging round the city . |
| 12 | In the conversations , he talks of preparing Mahler 's Fifth Symphony over two years of play-throughs , rehearsals , and recording before the first concert performance in Berlin . |
| 13 | His familiar way of observing things from a distance while highlighting a small detail — described in a different context by Hardy himself when he wrote , ‘ If I were a painter , I would paint a picture of a room as viewed by a mouse from a chink under the skirting ’ , and by the modern poet and critic Tom Paulin when he talks of Hardy wearing his imagination like a miner 's lamp — was now enriched by the workings of memory and the passage of time on the original observation . |
| 14 | One of the big problems the widower does have is that he does not feel so free to express his grief to others by weeping when he talks of his wife , their life together and the events that led up to her death . |
| 15 | He talks of my ‘ reticence and charm ’ and says that I looked like an ‘ office-worker ’ ! |
| 16 | As much as he talks of being driven by sporting ambition , his actions continually suggest a more cynical approach to the richest prize in sport . |
| 17 | Mr Lamont will be expected to respond by making a serious attempt to plug tax loopholes before he talks of increases in general taxation . |
| 18 | And he talks of a European home from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 19 | The second point of similarity emerges from the point of his analysis where he talks of changing codes of conduct . |
| 20 | When he talks of his work as a film editor , an edge appears in Gordon 's voice , a timbre of professionalism . |
| 21 | He talks of assigning responsibility to children , holding them responsible , requiring them to take responsibility and these are natural ways of speaking . |
| 22 | He talks of the " dark embryo " which gradually takes on the form of a poem , of " dark psychic material " with which the poet struggles ; it is a " burden " to be relieved or a " demon " to be exorcised . |
| 23 | ‘ He talks of the void . |
| 24 | He talks of the ‘ undefeated ones ’ in the midst of so much defeat . |
| 25 | However , one detects more than just a hint of resentment when he talks of the ‘ middle-class ’ , who , with their penchant for rationalisation and organisation , appear to have appropriated the game . |
| 26 | He never learnt his letters properly , to my shame , and now he talks of the army . |
| 27 | When he talks of the ‘ metal landscape ’ he is referring to the world of the train and not to the one of green landscapes which we would expect . |
| 28 | We have long talks together , Buffy and I. Sometimes in his ravings he talks of an all-knowing , super-intelligent pig . |
| 29 | It is interesting that he talks of people getting nothing for their additional contributions in the very week when the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) writes an article in a magazine in praise of the contributory principle — indeed , in praise of Beveridge in this the 50th anniversary of his excellent proposals . |
| 30 | When he talks of taking the war to the terrorists , I must reassert from the Dispatch Box that the actions of Her Majesty 's Government , and of the security forces on their behalf , will be conducted under the rule of law and that the rule of law will not be thrown away , for that would be a concession to the terrorists . |