Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to talk to you about that . ’ |
| 2 | The phone rings and a guy says , ‘ I want to talk to you about this . ’ |
| 3 | She tried to reason with herself about this . |
| 4 | I want to speak to you about this street lighting . |
| 5 | Do you want to talk to me about that in the tutorial first or would that be ? |
| 6 | He came to talk to me about that . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |
| 8 | He 'd desperately needed to talk to someone about this and when he 'd thought about it , William was the only person he could talk to . |
| 9 | ‘ Marjorie , I 've got to talk to you about this business , but I ca n't do it now . |
| 10 | ‘ I had to lie to you about that , to give you the confidence to stand still . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ … I wanted to talk to you about this and that . ’ |
| 12 | erm , I have n't , I was gon na go and , I tried phoning Lorne one time I was going through to Glasgow just to see if I could , can I have a , can I have a pint with him or something , erm , just to chew it over cos he suggested you know he 'd made various helpful suggestions , in the meantime I did n't manage to meet him , but in the meantime I did manage to speak to my father-in-law who has a camcorder and er he will be more than happy to erm , he 's also got editing equipment , he would be more than happy you know , to do the home made video that we 've talked about , I need to talk to him about this because the obvious place to do will be the Lyceum on one of your shows |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been meaning to talk to you about that . ’ |