Example sentences of "speak to [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ . |
| 2 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 3 | ‘ But that is a quite separate issue from the Alternative Services book which is an alternative way of enabling congregations who have not been well versed in Cranmerian language nevertheless to use a language which does reflect their longings and their prayers and can speak to them of God . ’ |
| 4 | Do you think you could speak to them on my behalf ? ’ |
| 5 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 6 | Any teacher who tries to devise a syllabus for a music class that will appeal to the members of the class for its relevance , or who attempts to attract the English class by giving them things to read or act that will speak to them in their own language is in danger of falling into the trap of ‘ thinking down ’ to his pupils , of condescending to them . |
| 7 | Probably their teachers will speak to them in this style , though what the learners are likely to encounter when they join in conversations with native speakers is what we have referred to previously as a ‘ rapid , casual ’ style . |
| 8 | Hospital staff rush here and there , tell them to wait , to walk down long forbidding corridors to see a doctor — whose name they have n't even been told — who may not even speak to them by name in a way they can understand . |
| 9 | ‘ Did you speak to him at all , Delia ? ’ |
| 10 | Otherwise you 'll , you 'll not speak to him at all cos I shall just pick the phone up and say |
| 11 | She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him . |
| 12 | The knowledge of his affair still ate away at her , and it was knowing that she could never speak to him about the affair that hurt most . |
| 13 | When will you go and speak to him about it ? ’ |
| 14 | Fergus felt a surge of real anger now , because how dare she treat him as an inferior , how dare she speak to him as if he was no more than one of her serfs , a possession , a pawn , a thing . |
| 15 | Yet when it came to negotiation , who would speak to him in the name of France ? |
| 16 | And , if he was a man with , who had never been in trouble before , and perhaps with a young family , and through being hard-up and through illness or any other reason , he would speak to him in a fatherly manner . |
| 17 | Do n't speak to him like that . |
| 18 | The church was very full and although Amabel could not speak to everyone on her progress to the front pew she paused before taking her seat and smiled sweetly , generally , at the congregation , hoping that no one would feel left out . |
| 19 | I did not speak to her during the journey , and when we arrived in Ruritania , I left the train at Zenda , a small town outside the capital . |
| 20 | She was a prim and proper little Fraulein , although her father was the villain , and Carruthers loved her , but dared not speak to her without a chaperone . |
| 21 | I 'll maybe speak to her about it a week , a week on Wednesday I I assume she 'll be back then . |
| 22 | She 's been in Paris on business for two days , but she 'll be back this evening , so you can speak to her about it . ’ |
| 23 | Well I do n't know because I , I did n't speak to her about the money , Sheila spoke to her , but she knows not to speak to me very much about money , see |
| 24 | she , she used to go on about it and all this and I , I sort of fell out with her at one time , but did n't actually speak to her about it |
| 25 | You ca n't , you ca n't speak to her at all ! |
| 26 | I did n't speak to her for the rest of the day , of course , and this made her laugh , I do n't know why . |
| 27 | ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’ |
| 28 | The remark got back to Belinda , who did n't speak to her for years thereafter . |
| 29 | It was n't going to be easy , arguing with someone from her inferior position , but she 'd be damned if she 'd let him speak to her like that ! |
| 30 | I did n't ask , because I was sure that someone would speak to her by name during the meal . |