Example sentences of "speak to [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 2 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 3 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 4 | You see , he does n't just speak to us for small talk , he does n't just speak to while away the time with , with conversation . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't even bother speaking to him for 24 hours before a match , ’ was the advice of a Danish team-mate . |
| 6 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 7 | There is one woman who regularly gazes across to her old home at Wouldham and if her brother is in his garden can see him plainly , but has n't spoken to him for several years . |
| 8 | She realised that not having spoken to him for ten days had given her a perspective she had not previously had — a perspective on herself as well as him . |
| 9 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 10 | P T O I suppose it 's unlikely that I 'll ever see you again but we might see each other at William 's or something and if you ever need to speak to me for some reason you can call me at school |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |