Example sentences of "[pron] spoke to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because I spoke to him on the phone and he sounds a tough customer . |
| 2 | I spoke to him on the telephone . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ No , I spoke to him on the phone . |
| 4 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
| 5 | ‘ I spoke to him on the phone to complain about him putting my name in an article . |
| 6 | The boss sounded agitated when I spoke to him over the phone . ’ |
| 7 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 8 | I spoke to him like a mother but he was determined to put an end to her life , so on 11 January 1987 , when Paulette was leaving the home of her friends on the way to her own home , [ the defendant ] stopped her and shot her and then placed a call to my home to inform me of the murder . |
| 9 | I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures . |
| 10 | I spoke to her from a great distance . |
| 11 | Again , when I spoke to you during the interims , I was expecting redundancies during the year of , of er , about a thousand . |
| 12 | Thank you for giving me brief details of the grounds maintenance agreed for Scorton Playing Field when I spoke to you on the phone recently . |
| 13 | I spoke to you on the phone at work er have you got your home number ? |
| 14 | As I said to you er when I spoke to you on the phone , I wanted to come erm one to introduce myself because I 'm now the new financial adviser for this area , erm also to review your existing policies to make sure that they are doing what they were originally designed to do . |
| 15 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 16 | Around him clustered lively and innovatory young administrators , many of whom went on to be Directors of Education themselves — including Alan Chorlton , who spoke to me on the stairs after being totally silent throughout my Banbury interview . |
| 17 | The tall man who spoke to her through the barely opened driver 's window was casually dressed in a well-cut tweed sports jacket and green drill trousers . |
| 18 | She did not reply to his cards , and when she spoke to him on the telephone he said she always declined his invitations firmly . |
| 19 | From the warmth in her voice , she spoke to him on the comm , I began to suspect that she and Chertro might have been more than friends at one time . |
| 20 | No one spoke to her except the woman at the public toilets . |
| 21 | He spoke to her outside the social services and pleaded with her to come home . |