Example sentences of "talk to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She likes the company of young people and finds they often talk to her about things they ca n't always discuss at home . |
| 2 | He came to see yer mother and talk to her about paying a reward . |
| 3 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 4 | I had n't seen her since before the trial , I really wanted to reassure her and talk to her on her own , to help my relationship with her continue . |
| 5 | Every now and then a dad would swagger in and talk to her with reverence but also with a certain courtly gaiety . |
| 6 | He says : ‘ I talk to her like an adult and she bosses me around . |
| 7 | Talk to her in your best , professorial manner , make her think how nice and kind you are and then gently ever so gently — put your hand up her skirt ? ’ |
| 8 | He continued : ‘ One of the problems I have is that people talk to me of political theatre and non-political theatre . |
| 9 | Stephen can confess his weaknesses , but he can go on to say ‘ You talk to me of nationality , language , religion . |
| 10 | ‘ And you talk to me about excuses ? |
| 11 | ‘ Talk to me about it . |
| 12 | Look at it and talk to me about it . ’ |
| 13 | The letter announcing my visit lay unopened on the mat when she opened the door , and an hour later I came away believing that I admired a woman who could , under these circumstances and in some pain , treat me as if I had just stepped round the corner for a packet of tea ten minutes before , and talk to me about this and that , and nothing at all . |
| 14 | Throughout the day he would stop work , make us coffee and talk to me about what he was working on , what he was reading and what I was doing . |
| 15 | I 've never been there , talk to me about that . ’ |
| 16 | Now , perhaps because I 've had a baby , friends talk to me about sex , or about their relationships with their boyfriends , where before they would n't . |
| 17 | Sally-Anne attacked her food with vigour , and when she had drunk her soup , buttered and eaten her roll , Dr Neil prompted her gently , ‘ Talk to me about it , McAllister . |
| 18 | Well , if ever you think of leaving , you just come and talk to me about it . |
| 19 | how each of the prices of each one , and you work out which which way round you 're going to do it , and then talk to me about it as you 're doing it . |
| 20 | Come and talk to me at Easter . |
| 21 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 22 | Please write , phone or talk to me with your ideas so that a mutual exchange can benefit all teachers . |
| 23 | If kind friends talk to me in jargon , using Latin names for all the plants , and immediately discussing the Ph-value of my soil , I am likely to give up . |
| 24 | Talk to me bout sexuality , |
| 25 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 26 | My mother used to visit Robert every afternoon and talk to him through glass . |
| 27 | Meese had simply said , ‘ All right , we want to go through the 1985 shipment … well , how the initiative began … then talk to him about this memo of the diversion of funds . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll take it to the hospital this morning , ’ she said , adding rather pathetically , ‘ and talk to him about it . ’ |
| 29 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 30 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |