Example sentences of "to talk [prep] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We which I would hope when will itemise the qualities and strengths of the child that you want to cover , like when we do personal statements or joint statements in the tenth and eleventh year that if the form teacher just ca n't write well Fred 's worked very well , he 's done extremely well in English we 'll actually start to talk about him as an individual and his strengths and weaknesses . |
| 2 | Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon , and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments , it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all . |
| 3 | Just to talk to him for a few minutes … |
| 4 | She wanted to talk to him in a way she had never wanted to talk to anyone before , but he was next door , not here . |
| 5 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 6 | Some time before he had asked me if I knew this most neglected of novelists , coming up to talk to me in a blue-green Athenian bar from which he was almost at once to be evicted for a splendid falsetto rendering of ‘ The Lost Chord ’ . |
| 7 | He first tried to talk to me in an English pub . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To show this was not true , I began to talk to her in an animated way , and she was attentive , encouraging me with questions . |
| 10 | She also came to talk to us at a recent training day about what the very elderly can and can not do . |
| 11 | She crashed out a few chords and started to talk to us in a different voice through her ‘ control ’ , who was ( of course ) , a Red Indian — White Cloud or Black Feet or something like that . |
| 12 | ‘ My father has asked me to talk to you on a certain matter . |
| 13 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 14 | I would like to talk to you for a minute or two . ‘ |
| 15 | ‘ My — my English is not too good , you understand , but I would like to be able to talk to you for a while . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd like to talk to you about a couple of perigrines you 've sold . |
| 17 | I would love to talk to you over a much longer period , but I 'm afraid that 's all that we have time for today . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe they want to talk to it about a burning truck , ’ said Masklin . |