Example sentences of "talk [prep] the man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he was going to talk to the man himself . |
| 2 | Wickham recognized the type : willing enough to help but he must be allowed to go back to his friends with the news that his information was so valuable he had been allowed to talk to the man heading the inquiry , and if he could throw in a description of a place as exciting as a newspaper office so much to his credit . |
| 3 | The third was to talk to the man who had been in love with Irene Pitt . |
| 4 | ‘ We achieved the objective through the perseverence of our trained negotiator who was able to talk to the man through a telephone communication which we had set up . ’ |
| 5 | We 've talked about the man in the cemetery , the graveyard , and we 've talked about other people coming into the drop in centre and their sense of anger , but what about your sense of anger ? |
| 6 | Police talked to the man for 90 minutes before breaking into the flat in Brighton and grabbing him after he threatened to light a match . |
| 7 | ‘ They went as far as the railway crossin' on the other side of the tunnel , talked to the man on duty at the halt there , then turned back . |
| 8 | ‘ Have you talked to the man , the one who married her ? ’ |
| 9 | Alright , what you did n't see , and I 've talked to the man who made the video , and he tells me that in fact — as played in slow motion , it does definitely show that Martin Foyle as the ball was going goalward , got the final touch to the ball and did put it into the net , no doubt that in fact it was Foyle 's goal . |
| 10 | The tall man looked so bereft at the loss of his luggage , his inability to recall where he was supposed to be staying ; she watched a lot of movies and thought he looked a bit like that gentleman who was always asking people to make his day , but he talked like the man with the funny bird-feather in his hat from ‘ Dallas ’ . |
| 11 | He talked to the man who had completed , with no success , the search for paper like that on which the letter was typed . |
| 12 | You talk to the man you are buying it from and he really takes trouble over you . |
| 13 | Talk to the man about who did the housework in his childhood home . |
| 14 | And to women , for goodness sake , talk to the man in your life and say how important he is to you . |
| 15 | Talk to the man . |
| 16 | And while we 're talking about the man 's divine right to know , little babies are born knowing all they need to know about love : they 're unselfconscious , they can communicate , and their first experience — sucking — is a sensual one ! |
| 17 | I 'm talking about the man who just came in . ’ |
| 18 | MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load ! |
| 19 | She ai n't looking at it — she 's carrying on talking to the man , but she keeps twisting the neck of this white duck . |
| 20 | Most of us went , to savour talking to the man who abhorred women , in the forbidden room with its hard chairs and unopened windows and the heart bleeding over the door . |
| 21 | But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven . |
| 22 | I wasted no time in talking to the man … |
| 23 | Bradley Star is a very nice horse he 's a classy performer this one , Josh Gifford 's horses are in tremendous form and I was talking to the man who who rides him Deckland Murphy he 's my next door neighbour he thinks he 'll run a big race . |
| 24 | TRYING to talk to civil servants was as hard as talking to the man from Reader 's Digest ( see above ) . |
| 25 | You can talk to the man who 's running it . |