Example sentences of "started talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The engine has always been on schedule , our engineers just started talking about it too soon . |
| 2 | We started talking about poetry and about our favourite modern poets . |
| 3 | Sometime after we began work he started talking about the King 's Cross railway station fire that killed so many and about the fact that he was on an underground train going through the station at that time . |
| 4 | And when we saw that we all started talking about what might be about to happen between these two . |
| 5 | Lorraine Herbert , of Flaxton , Yorkshire , was intrigued when her young daughter Joanne started talking about her friend , Dohti . |
| 6 | Then he very cleverly started talking about love . |
| 7 | Defence Secretary Dick Cheney was so cock-a-hoop about the first day in Somalia he started talking about the pull-out . |
| 8 | MICHAEL Hardcastle was halfway through a story about a struggling Fourth Division football club when he started talking about Mozart ( aged five ) . |
| 9 | He was even more distressed when , on another of his leaves , his wife , Fiona , started talking about a divorce . |
| 10 | Afterwards he came over all tender and started talking about when we 're married . |
| 11 | Sun , he says , ‘ sat on its remote procedure call laurels too long and did n't advance its Open Network Computing technology until OSF started talking about DCE . ’ |
| 12 | And the time came when all round the world people started talking about the Costakis collection with reverence . |
| 13 | Felix 's wife started talking about poetry , which she wrote , while Felix shouted about his last visit to Castro . |
| 14 | They started drinking that evening and the man who 'd been fired started talking about life in Vietnam and posing as a veteran , and he said to the other one , ‘ The only place to go after hours is Tan Son Hut airport because they have marvellous chinese soup there ’ and they wanted to sober up . |
| 15 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 16 | Everybody — senior and junior — started talking about how they were n't getting the support they needed . |
| 17 | It could be argued that they might help to identify him , but it was felt that they might relate to another crime and that if we started talking about them it might put whoever was responsible on his guard . |
| 18 | " Well , " Starke began , and started talking about what Steven should do about registering as unemployed . |
| 19 | Major Braithwaite and Julia started talking about horses . |
| 20 | The stuff had just stayed there for years , and Mum had n't been interested , but then people started talking about Dad , and writing to her , and sending pieces they 'd written on him . |
| 21 | I hoped so , and I was going to take the risk of finding out , but then Bill started talking about your once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel , and I thought about the fact that I 'm thirty-four and you 're twenty-two … ’ |
| 22 | Then Martinho started talking about the seminary journal . |
| 23 | He started talking about individuals ' opinion poll ratings . |
| 24 | And it was girls in school then that s s you know when you started talking about , Ooh what happened to me on the beach and that . |
| 25 | Thus , this " think-tank " at the Air Ministry started talking about a target finding element which evolved into a target marking force and , ultimately , the Pathfinder Force ( PFF ) . |
| 26 | So even someone as obviously corrupt as Richard Nixon , people started talking about the new Nixon , new Nixon the statesman . |
| 27 | They stopped saying , you know , would you buy a used car from this man and started talking about him as the international peacemaker . |
| 28 | ‘ I could see what he was thinking , so I started talking about love , how it means different things to different people , and that 's when he said it . ’ |
| 29 | But the the the railway stock was in such a bad state , that that 's when people started the real activists of the Labour movement really started talking about confiscation instead of compensation . |
| 30 | Erm occupation when you , you were talking about travel when , he 'd told you what he was doing and he was associated with an American company or the parent company was in America erm you mentioned about travel , Steve started talking about car and miles he drives and he also mentioned flying but you never explored at all really the , the flying side . |