Example sentences of "talk [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 2 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 3 | I try any watch the production at some time during the week in order to be able to talk about it to the Press . |
| 4 | Well , this is an issue which is sort of under debate and it 's all part of the training thing , 'cause we are going to talk about it at the Training Committee tomorrow . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about it at the moment , Stephen , if you do n't mind . ’ |
| 6 | You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen . |
| 7 | I shall also want to talk with you about the ffruit Trees I intend to plant against the wall next y Pump Court . |
| 8 | John and Norma were escorted out of Jeffrey Archer 's Bridal Suite and back to their own and since it was not safe to leave the hotel , Lady Thatcher accompanied them , as she wanted to talk to them about the progress of her Foundation . |
| 9 | A couple of clients had called me , and I would have time to talk to them in the morning ; and I had an invitation to a golf society day in a couple of weeks ' time . |
| 10 | I used to talk to Him on the wireless — still do sometimes . |
| 11 | Or one of us would rush into the dressing room just before curtain-up and tell Terry there was someone who urgently needed to talk to him on the phone . |
| 12 | And I have to talk to him on the phone and I 'm saying speak to him very well . |
| 13 | to know , we do n't say , had to talk to him through the Christmas presents it was lovely . |
| 14 | Susan had tagged a uniformed cop on the beat ill the distance , and guessed she would n't want to talk to him about the corpse . |
| 15 | Now , just when she was bursting to talk to him about the job , he was going to be less than forthcoming . |
| 16 | Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children . |
| 17 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 18 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 19 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 20 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 21 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 22 | Since he refuses to talk to me over the phone , he 'll have the pleasure of talking to me in person instead ! |
| 23 | But Worcester police want to talk to her about the withdrawal of £130,000 from funds . |
| 24 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 25 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 26 | Okay , well we 'll come back to that , if I may , in a moment , because I just want to move on again to another guest , who is waiting to talk to us on the telephone , and that is Lindsay McNeill , who is the Aviation Reporters for Travel News . |
| 27 | Well waiting to talk to us on the telephone now is Rupert Lancaster , who 's the managing director of Foders U K. |
| 28 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 29 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 30 | Alternatively , we would be happy to talk to you on the telephone if that is more convenient . |