Example sentences of "[noun sg] talk to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a great pleasure to talk to you at dear Crabb 's breakfast party . |
| 2 | On our retreat in the last year of school , a visiting priest talked to us from Sister Superior 's throne . |
| 3 | The telephone answering machine , and my clients ' willingness to talk to me at unusual hours of the day and night , kept me firmly in touch . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you getting me out of bed at this hour to talk to me about my brother ? ’ she demanded . |
| 5 | He is having counselling , but what worries me is his inability to talk to us about it . |
| 6 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 7 | One girl talked to us about her sexual abuse . |
| 8 | If I can just endorse what Stewart was saying the Parish Council talked to me as their consultant for a while and said look it seems that that with the with the actions of the er County Council writing to the Secretary of State to preempt the call-in procedures and the attitude of the District Council that this thing might well get local planning permission . |
| 9 | Later still again , she was doing her A's , there was Daddy talking to them over the shepherd 's pie about Keir Hardie , and her saying , ‘ Oh gosh I see , yes — ! ’ and Mummy laughing , ‘ Can we all eat and not so much learned talk . |
| 10 | Diane 's gon na go but I have n't had a chance to talk to her about it yet , again . |
| 11 | She' d get a chance to talk to him about Ascot . |
| 12 | The assistant headteacher agreed to see him every day , on an informal basis , to get a chance to talk to him about home , family and school and to offer support where possible . |
| 13 | ‘ A few things have cropped up that I did n't have a chance to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ This is the first time I 've had a chance to talk to you on your own , ’ he said thoughtfully , a speculative gleam in his hazel eyes . |
| 15 | But this week I went along to ‘ the other Headingley ’ where he plies his trade week-in , week-out to talk to him about his hopes and ambitions and how he saw the season panning out for his big-spending club . |
| 16 | And it illumines too the politics of personal relations : the vital fabric of social life that exists in the silence between people — exactly that space which is filled by music : ‘ As the person talked to me in a conventional conversation , I knew , I heard that , inside himself , the person perhaps wept . ’ |
| 17 | Ruth heard Gran talking to her in the office — which was only a partitioned off slice of the kitchen , so Ruth could hear every word as she stacked the dishwasher . |
| 18 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 19 | A man talked to us about the Christian way of life . |
| 20 | Listen to the voice talking to you in everything you do and know it is not your voice , but the inner voice of the one who cares for you with love and infinite tenderness . |
| 21 | One girl spent the whole afternoon talking to me about her family 's obsession with beauty , how she had always been praised and noticed for being pretty and not much else , and then , just at the end , spoke guiltily of ‘ wasting my time ’ with a subject so unimportant . |
| 22 | If this is the case , an incentive to improved health might be for the counsellor to talk to them about ways and means of increasing their social contacts and involvement when they get better . |
| 23 | Mr Bradley called her miss , and even the local doctor called her Miss McCafferty whenever he had reason to talk to her about her charges . |
| 24 | ‘ Did the Admiral talk to you at all about your conduct of the wine committee ? ’ |
| 25 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 26 | A couple of clients had called me , and I would have time to talk to them in the morning ; and I had an invitation to a golf society day in a couple of weeks ' time . |