Example sentences of "speak to [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Who did you speak to at the Palace ? |
2 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
3 | Lord Harris agreed to be chairman and a group of academics , about half of those whom Robertson had approached , turned up to an informal first meeting at Dean 's Yard , Westminster ( ‘ Suddenly all these distinguished geezers I had spoken to on the phone were there in this room ’ ) . |
4 | On August 2nd , 1951 , 48-year old Mrs Mabel Tattershaw was spoken to by the man next to her in the Roxy Cinema , Nottingham . |
5 | Nobody I had spoken to in the train , or on the ferry , had ever visited Moila , which must support , so I was told by one slow-spoken Highlander , no more than thirty folk in all . |
6 | To carry out assessments of training needs was an exacting task and the majority of Group Organisers spoken to in the study felt unable or unwilling to undertake it . |
7 | The woman I spoke to on the phone realised this immediately and within the hour a man in a boiler suit arrived . |
8 | ‘ Some people I spoke to during the summer expected New Zealand and Australia to be beaten , then France twice and finally us . |
9 | did anyone you spoke to during the time you were recording object to being recorded ? |
10 | Did anyone you spoke to during the time that you recorded objected ? |
11 | The managers Hospitality spoke to about the buyout were all convinced that it was the right route for the business . |
12 | The brother of the girl you spoke to at the Post Office . ’ |
13 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |