Example sentences of "[adj] talk [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He termintade that counselling , butr we are willing to talk to him through his partish priest or bishop . |
| 3 | Pharmacists are not only willing to talk to you about medicines but about many other aspects of health as well — and in private if you prefer other customers not to hear . |
| 4 | Even when people appear willing to talk to us about their difficulties , it is not always the real problems that they will initially present . |
| 5 | ‘ The answer that we received was that to talk to us on film would be voyeurism at its worst . |
| 6 | ‘ The answer that we received was that to talk to us on film would be voyeurism at its worst . |
| 7 | ‘ The answer that we received was that to talk to us on film would be voyeurism at its worst . |
| 8 | They made it respectable to talk about it by linking grants with the proper adoption of equal opportunity policies . |
| 9 | It is important that the children should be able to play freely in this way , and again although it might be appropriate to talk with them about the materials beforehand or afterwards , if a model has been completed , a great deal can be learnt simply by observation . |
| 10 | We will be glad to talk to you about this before you borrow . |
| 11 | This time , let's have this client who 's aged thirty four next birthday , erm , non-smoker , it 's the page we 've been using , let's say our client can afford now , forty pounds , because they 're likely to talk to us in terms of tens or fives , so forty pounds . |
| 12 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 13 | No good talking to me about top and bottom length , cos I do n't know what you 're talking about . |
| 14 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 15 | Alternatively , we would be happy to talk to you on the telephone if that is more convenient . |
| 16 | If you do n't already bank with NatWest , take your completed form along to any of our branches , where our staff will be happy to talk to you about opening an account and discuss your loan application . |
| 17 | They publish useful leaflets and information , and will be happy to talk to you about going back to work . |
| 18 | That has been quite a lot of money er spent in that area and which I 'm quite happy to talk to you about erm I do n't need . |
| 19 | And when one of them did choose her , she found herself quite unable to talk to him at all . |
| 20 | The cause was a common one and as old as the hills , but I was unable to talk about it for years . |
| 21 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 22 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 23 | Stephen had never been able to talk to her about her relationship with the great novelist . |
| 24 | ‘ Annunziata , are you all right ? ’ asked Julia when the question of dinner was settled , relieved to be able to talk to her at last with reasonable fluency . |
| 25 | ‘ My — my English is not too good , you understand , but I would like to be able to talk to you for a while . ’ |
| 26 | She would give anything to be able to talk with him in private , but he deliberately chose a time when both of them were a home . |
| 27 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |
| 28 | Have to be able to talk about it to the owners tonight . |
| 29 | I try any watch the production at some time during the week in order to be able to talk about it to the Press . |
| 30 | It would be equally fatal to talk about it to her Auntie May . |