21.   If a conversation with one employee is going poorly, she said, try to talk to someone different.

22.   If you stick with inquiries that require more than a yes or no answer, the conversation will go further.

23.   Keeler, like Law, said it is impossible to predict how the conversation might go.

24.   Lange noted that as the conversations went on, he felt that there was no hostility to the police and that there was a rapport being established.

25.   Max decided that he liked her, even though he could not imagine where this conversation was going or what she wanted of him.

26.   Maher and Carter know there is a risk that instead of fizzing with sparkling bons mots, the cocktail-party conversation will go flat.

27.   Miller said that was not the way the conversation went.

28.   Most conversations went nowhere, but a few were exceptions.

29.   No telling how far this conversation could have gone, except that the stranger soon realized that they were not quite receiving each other.

30.   Since neither Sternlicht nor Nanula were available to discuss the resignation, it is not known how their final, corporate conversation went.