Example sentences of "[verb] to speak to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to speak to you about this street lighting . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 5 | ‘ Would yer be wantin' to speak to 'im in private , Joe ? ’ |
| 6 | Nobody had ever dared to speak to her like that before . |
| 7 | She would so like to speak to him of all that was inside her . |
| 8 | Police are anxious to eliminate the two men , who were seen near her home , from their inquiries , and would like to speak to them as potential witnesses . |
| 9 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 10 | Maggie spat , alarmed that the others might hear and wishing she did not have to speak to him at all . |
| 11 | ‘ If you continue to speak to me in that cold manner , ’ she answered , ‘ I shall say nothing at all . |
| 12 | Every thing was alright , though it rather took the wind out of my sails to know that I would n't get to speak to him after all . |
| 13 | I had to speak to you in private . ’ |
| 14 | And on this he turned from her and hurried through the store-room , leaving her trembling , and not a little , at her own audacity in daring to speak to him like that . |
| 15 | P T O I suppose it 's unlikely that I 'll ever see you again but we might see each other at William 's or something and if you ever need to speak to me for some reason you can call me at school |