Example sentences of "[vb past] talk to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children .
2 Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action .
3 Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action .
4 She did not have long to brood because Harbury began talking to her about the MacQuillan case .
5 Or one of us would rush into the dressing room just before curtain-up and tell Terry there was someone who urgently needed to talk to him on the phone .
6 I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut .
7 to know , we do n't say , had to talk to him through the Christmas presents it was lovely .
8 Apparently he had talked to no-one in the A.R.R. Unit .
9 He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment .
10 Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there .
11 John and Norma were escorted out of Jeffrey Archer 's Bridal Suite and back to their own and since it was not safe to leave the hotel , Lady Thatcher accompanied them , as she wanted to talk to them about the progress of her Foundation .
12 I wanted to talk to you about the things that er you 've got from the meetings and to just think about the pricing issues .
13 I wanted to talk to you for the whole journey , but I could n't let you know that , so I just sat there thinking , I 've got to touch her …
14 Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her .
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