Example sentences of "talk to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 2 | As the Newsons ' researches on child-reading demonstrate ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , 1976 ) young female children are more likely to be encouraged by their parents to remain indoors , to talk to adults ( especially their mothers ) , to be unadventurous . |
| 3 | Borrow , as always , delighted to talk to gypsies in their native tongue and was pleased to note , at Tintagel , the name Jennifer in the church register — a corruption of Guinevere . |
| 4 | Now after fresh pressure , the inquiry leader has new instructions to talk to relatives , as well as concerned groups like the Community Health council and the charity MIND which welcomes the move . |
| 5 | I 'm not saying that it is necessarily trivialising to talk to interviewees about their clothes , it 's just that you do n't find the male presenters on Rock Steady talking to Phil Collins about his suits ! |
| 6 | We have been making great progress as people sometimes prefer to talk to civilians . ’ |
| 7 | She is , apparently , too distressed to talk to visitors . |
| 8 | It is well known for the friendliness of its reception and the readiness of its members to take time to talk to visitors . |
| 9 | THE taxman is keen to talk to visitors attending this year 's Ideal Home Exhibition in the King 's Hall . |
| 10 | The controversial storyline in The Archers , radio 's longest running soap , gets an airing when two cast members visit the big top on Friday at noon to talk to visitors . |
| 11 | Students and tutors will be available to talk to visitors from 7pm on Wednesday , February 12 . |
| 12 | Students and tutors will be available to talk to visitors from 7pm on Wednesday , February 12 . |
| 13 | Try to talk to parents with children at the proposed school , or to the local newsagent . |
| 14 | Following the family service is the major bonus of a chance to talk to parents informally over coffee and biscuits . |
| 15 | Many teenage children feel unable to talk to parents about intimate or emotional issues but it is important to be ready to talk , if they show that they want to . |
| 16 | He had been planning to talk to scientists there about their fears for the future when the project ends . |
| 17 | Baldwin and both women agreed in court not to talk to newspapers about the case . |
| 18 | ‘ We felt that by cutting out the broker to reduce the cost , building up a team of very friendly tele-sales and tele-service operators to talk to customers and explain and do all the form filling for them , they would eventually sign . |
| 19 | Sales Desk staff would be able to talk to customers and simultaneously operate a VDU obtaining instant information . |
| 20 | She spotted Adam almost as soon as she entered the club , but though he was sitting only a short distance away with a stocky sandy-haired man she did n't recognise , it took her some time to reach his table , since she was obliged to stop at every few strides to talk to customers . |
| 21 | Clusters with prams on pavements stopped to talk to groups coming the other way . |
| 22 | Most companies are willing to give customers the best service they can , and virtually all suppliers interviewed stressed their eagerness to talk to caterers about their individual needs to as to match the right product to the right task . |
| 23 | But Mr Hume said he was ‘ quite willing ’ to talk to unionists as well . |
| 24 | If you want to talk to gardeners it 's cheaper to address them on the gardening page of a newspaper or in a specialist gardening magazine than on television . |
| 25 | Well it 's certainly clear that some of the companies , for instance Cliffhanger , which have grown in Brighton and developed Brighton as a base , are not just immensely popular within Brighton , but also very popular when we take them out on tour , or when they offer their services to other venues in other parts of East Sussex or Kent , and this is equally true of some of the community orientated groups , some of the musicians and artists who live and work primarily in Brighton erm their talent is readily appreciable throughout the region and therefore it 's part of our tactics to talk to artists who are operating in the Brighton area and see whether they 're willing or interested in taking some of their work out to other parts of the region . |
| 26 | All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly . |
| 27 | As far as he could remember from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi , you were allowed to talk to women . |
| 28 | ‘ We want to encourage parents to talk to youngsters and see if the new kits are what they really want . |
| 29 | Hatred for the girl who had dared to talk to strangers , who had ruined his plan to get rid of Sikes . |
| 30 | She had trained them to hold hands , walk straight to school and not to talk to strangers . |