Example sentences of "[adj] talk to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 2 | He termintade that counselling , butr we are willing to talk to him through his partish priest or bishop . |
| 3 | Pharmacists are not only willing to talk to you about medicines but about many other aspects of health as well — and in private if you prefer other customers not to hear . |
| 4 | Even when people appear willing to talk to us about their difficulties , it is not always the real problems that they will initially present . |
| 5 | We will be glad to talk to you about this before you borrow . |
| 6 | This time , let's have this client who 's aged thirty four next birthday , erm , non-smoker , it 's the page we 've been using , let's say our client can afford now , forty pounds , because they 're likely to talk to us in terms of tens or fives , so forty pounds . |
| 7 | No good talking to me about top and bottom length , cos I do n't know what you 're talking about . |
| 8 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 9 | Alternatively , we would be happy to talk to you on the telephone if that is more convenient . |
| 10 | If you do n't already bank with NatWest , take your completed form along to any of our branches , where our staff will be happy to talk to you about opening an account and discuss your loan application . |
| 11 | They publish useful leaflets and information , and will be happy to talk to you about going back to work . |
| 12 | That has been quite a lot of money er spent in that area and which I 'm quite happy to talk to you about erm I do n't need . |
| 13 | And when one of them did choose her , she found herself quite unable to talk to him at all . |
| 14 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 15 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 16 | Stephen had never been able to talk to her about her relationship with the great novelist . |
| 17 | ‘ Annunziata , are you all right ? ’ asked Julia when the question of dinner was settled , relieved to be able to talk to her at last with reasonable fluency . |
| 18 | ‘ My — my English is not too good , you understand , but I would like to be able to talk to you for a while . ’ |
| 19 | It was difficult to talk to him with this going on . |
| 20 | " On the other hand , " I went on , " I have come across something that may lead to some news of Mr. Stavanger — It might be difficult to talk to you in your office — that 's why I 'm ringing now . |
| 21 | We are accountable to the public in many different ways , and we always have to keep an eye on the fact that the public are looking at what we are doing with our money and local politicians and the community 's representatives are always anxious to talk to us about what we are doing with that money and we must be prepared to answer any queries or any questions on our activities or those activities of people that we 're sponsoring . |
| 22 | They were happy , relaxed children and seemed keen to talk to me about themselves . |
| 23 | We walked along the intersecting tyke walls and met a voluntary warden eager to talk to us about some of the work carried out on the reserve . |