Example sentences of "[adv] talk to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 2 | Mr Calvert was n't fit enough to talk to us about the bookings . |
| 3 | He is constantly talking to you about your performance , about how you are reacting , building up your confidence throughout the training session . |
| 4 | well I mean I 'm only trying to get you to pick to pick it up one wee thing from every time I said , do have a chat with you , that 's what we always say , I 'm not expecting you to pick up anything else I 've said to you tonight cos I 'm only talking to you in general terms , but if you pick up one wee thing , right , story close |
| 5 | Perhaps talking to her about Rob made him feel that someone was dancing on his own grave . |
| 6 | So I would n't necessarily talk to them about conditions in the flats . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , perhaps you 'd better talk to them about that . ’ |
| 8 | because this , this , your friend , I mean you have n't been doing it long have you and she will only talk to you in French wo n't she ? |
| 9 | Just to talk to him for a few minutes … |
| 10 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 11 | just talk to them like anybody else does . |
| 12 | Erm , she started really by , well th well there is two of them involved at the time , but they started by reading a book on the subject and really just talking to me about it certainly , because I mean they really did n't understand , you know because food to them is just food , you know it was just some meal they had to eat because they were hungry and they could n't understand why I had got this whole thing completely distorted . |
| 13 | It would be so much easier Elsie if there was not this huge amount of land separating us and if I could just talk to you for a little while face to face . |
| 14 | Can I just talk to you about them ones ? |
| 15 | A builder friend of mine once talked to me about mistakes made by builders . |
| 16 | No one had ever talked to her like this before , and she was n't at all sure how the game — if it really was a game — should be played . |
| 17 | Have you ever talked to him about her ? |
| 18 | Men had always talked to her about need , and about love as well , but in a voice that did n't differentiate the two . |
| 19 | I did n't mind , I was happy that he still talked to me at all . |
| 20 | ‘ People always talk to us about The Doors . |
| 21 | Ca n't remember him ever talking to me about this . |
| 22 | Did you ever talk to her in the way she wanted ? |
| 23 | He could always talk to them on their level without ever sounding patronising , as most adults tend to do . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps she would get the chance later to talk to him about the ledgers . |
| 25 | And also talk to you about a tiebreaker . |
| 26 | He also talks to him about the possible relationship between stress , smoking , poor dietary habits , alcohol and the incidence of peptic ulcers so that Peter understands what is happening and can consider what changes he might make in his lifestyle . |
| 27 | He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia . |
| 28 | She likes the company of young people and finds they often talk to her about things they ca n't always discuss at home . |
| 29 | THEY DO N'T REALLY TALK TO YOU AS A PERSON |
| 30 | When you know that they are sort of negative and they do n't really talk to you as a person , you know that they 're not really bothered about what happens to you . |