Example sentences of "speak to he [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Did you speak to him at all , Delia ? ’
2 Otherwise you 'll , you 'll not speak to him at all cos I shall just pick the phone up and say
3 She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him .
4 The knowledge of his affair still ate away at her , and it was knowing that she could never speak to him about the affair that hurt most .
5 When will you go and speak to him about it ? ’
6 Fergus felt a surge of real anger now , because how dare she treat him as an inferior , how dare she speak to him as if he was no more than one of her serfs , a possession , a pawn , a thing .
7 Yet when it came to negotiation , who would speak to him in the name of France ?
8 And , if he was a man with , who had never been in trouble before , and perhaps with a young family , and through being hard-up and through illness or any other reason , he would speak to him in a fatherly manner .
9 Do n't speak to him like that .
10 He was ashamed that Michael had heard his father-in-law speak to him like that .
11 and dumb and I speak to him like a goldfish .
12 In a moment we 'll be speaking to him about his son 's plight , but first we go over to Switzerland where our reporter , John Marshall , has been following the story .
13 I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th .
14 From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door .
15 ‘ Do n't even bother speaking to him for 24 hours before a match , ’ was the advice of a Danish team-mate .
16 And he said he was unable to resist orders from a drowned boyhood friend called Delroy , who was speaking to him from ‘ beyond the grave ’ .
17 Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice .
18 A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post .
19 Williamson felt he had a special bond with Hitler , and even at times imagined aloud that he had spoken to him on that fateful Christmas day .
20 Those of us privileged to have spoken to him at some length and to have seen his fascinating family albums would have known of his boyhood tea with Hitler , his Military Medal midstream in some Eastern battlefield and a host of other incidents .
21 Do n't know , I 've never spoken to him at all , do n't know
22 But more compelling were her dark expressive eyes , eyes that had widened with shock on seeing Tyler there , eyes that might have spoken to him of anger but instead had betrayed something much deeper , and far more dangerous .
23 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 .
24 Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Cadogan says ferried to question this man till he 's dry , question him to death if necessary , but I 've already spoken to him for hours .
28 From the sound of it my father could n't have spoken to him for very long , or he would have recognised his son 's voice .
29 Frank , I think , had spoken to him about not taking everything that was said so personally but to learn how to ride the ups and downs , the vicissitudes , of theatre . ’
30 Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her .
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