Example sentences of "talk [prep] [pron] for a " in BNC.

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1 Just to talk to him for a few minutes …
2 And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen .
3 But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while .
4 I would like to talk to you for a minute or two . ‘
5 ‘ My — my English is not too good , you understand , but I would like to be able to talk to you for a while . ’
6 On the latter 's arrival , they had talked to him for a while and then he had gone off with them .
7 I found one guy and talked to him for a while on tape .
8 We talked about her for a long time , and I think our Chairman was impressed .
9 Will talked with him for a few minutes , then gave him a penny .
10 you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs
11 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 .
12 Aye have a look , while you 're doing that I 'll have a look at what bits and pieces see if I talk to you for a minute about these
13 I mean it 's very nice to be with a child , a baby , for about three or four hours , but after that you are quite grateful for somebody else to come and play with it for a while , and talk to it for a while .
14 Often the counsellor of ageing people will experience this when , after talking with them for a short period , many of the pressures and worries appear to be visibly lifted from their shoulders .
15 After talking to her for a while I asked her if she was English .
16 ‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says .
17 ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo .
18 It 's one of my jobs to meet the boats and this involves assembling the visitors and talking to them for a short while about the wildlife and rules of the island .
19 I wondered if she was talking to me for a minute .
20 ‘ Well , just let us talk to him for a few moments , ’ said one of them .
21 ‘ Would you talk to me for a few minutes ? ’
22 He did n't talk to me for a week after that .
23 It could also mean ‘ Will you talk to me for a few minutes , I feel sad . ’
24 Ca n't you come and talk to me for a bit ?
25 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 .
26 Matilda said , ‘ Please may I talk to you for a moment ? ’
27 If I could just talk to someone for a few minutes .
28 I , I just ask him if , and it , the question that I 'm interested in the answer to , like how did it go ? and , now he talks at me for an hour until Diane comes in and says enough Vaughany , cos she can see I sort of trying to edge away
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