Example sentences of "talk to [n mass] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 An unemployed lift engineer 's mate , Darren Webb , 25 , of Colchester , also appreciated the opportunity to talk to people about the various training and job schemes available rather than having to rely on leaflets .
2 Young people hoping to work in the bereavement business were being invited to talk to staff at the North Eastern Co-op , in Benwell , Newcastle upon Tyne .
3 No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that .
4 But you talk to people with the fervour of what you want to tell them .
5 If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps .
6 No , he 's alright , but I just hate talking to people over the phone .
7 To do this you will be involved in meeting staff , attending meetings , talking to people on the phone , travelling , discussing , negotiating and persuading .
8 I could say all the right words about Hilda , I 'd learned to do that in the past few days , talking to people on the phone , but I could n't believe in the phrases the way Susan seemed to .
9 Again , talking to people on the site , the topics of quality improvements and quality assurance were part of most conversations on processes within MOPs .
10 It may be worth saying , Tony that Graham 's already talked to officers and it 's worth your while talking to people on the house-to-house duty rota .
11 He said : ‘ In talking to people about the election I have become aware of two areas which concern me deeply and , I believe , compromise the democratic process .
12 The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) assumes that I have been sitting drinking cups of coffee and not talking to people about the issues .
13 Plenty of studies , and my own experience of talking to people in the construction industry and especially small businesses , have shown that the fear of poaching is constant .
14 Cos you can sort of talk to people on the way up and record you in the car
15 Why do n't you talk to people in the streets , you 're the parcels man ai n't you ?
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