Successive governments have prattled on at length about the importance of this for our economy and for our businesses. |
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Nobody prattled about dormitory suburbs, or objected to people drinking on the footpath outside the pubs. |
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He made a blah-blah-blah gesture with his hand, as the woman prattled into the phone. |
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Their companions nodded sagely in agreement as they prattled on. |
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I went back to her, held her hand and prattled away for a little while. |
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A father was listening to his subdeb daughter and two of her little friends as they prattled along in the next room. |
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I just nodded politely while she prattled on until the vet called us in. |
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I prattled away, getting scant response, and then we said goodbye. |
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Is the fact that Mr Bush sat silently in hour-long meetings with his treasury secretary, while Mr O'Neill prattled on, a sign of ignorance or of tolerance Arguably, Mr O'Neill's strictures reflect a clash of temperaments. |
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He remembered with bemusement the way they had prattled on, strolling by the Seine, earnestly discussing those things that were most out of their control: Life's Important Matters. |
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Had he known what attracted her to him initially, what propelled her to listen so patiently as he prattled on about his experiments and his home laboratory, he would have been mortified. |
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They prattled on into the night, discussing school, music, and friends. |
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