Example sentences of "talk to [art] " in BNC.

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1 During that time they stopped to talk to no one , though they passed other craft on the river whose occupants stared at the company .
2 I went into another room to talk to a Scientology person .
3 My friend had wanted specifically to talk to a specialist , so she could make up her own mind about surgery .
4 The drinks machine was in the passage leading to the library and sometimes one or other of them would sit down for a break , and she found it a relief to talk to a real human being .
5 He could easily have been a character in a Thomas Mann novel — the great remote maestro venturing down from The Magic Mountain to talk to a visiting writer .
6 I came a chief to talk to a chief .
7 A local bureau may be approached to talk to a group of probation officers .
8 W. R. You were n't allowed to talk to a girl in my time .
9 The retailer will use the telephone to place orders ; to get in touch with other branches or head office ; to contact the bank ; or to talk to a customer .
10 If a visitor or medical practitioner has to talk to a resident through you , make sure you consult them and do n't answer for them .
11 It was good to talk to a man with whom she felt comfortable .
12 It is inexcusable to talk to a mature adult as if he or she were a rather dull child . ’
13 It may be easier for them to talk to a fellow inmate . ’
14 They say they have never encountered any problems in being an all-female firm ; if anything , they find that a lot of their male clients find it easier to talk to a woman about their finances .
15 The result : a burgeoning young generation of 100,000 hard-core otaku who are too uptight to talk to a telephone operator but who can kick ass on the keyboard of a PC .
16 One of Niki 's tactics in that elaborate form of board game called ‘ driver negotiations ’ ( i.e. how does a driver get the best car and the most money ? ) was always to talk to a lot of teams , hinting , not so subtly , that ‘ if the package was right ’ , he could be seduced .
17 He was a taciturn man who found it difficult to talk to a boy ; but he did sometimes spare time to tell him of his travels in the wilder parts of Alberta , of encounters with grizzly bears , white water rushing through narrow gorges , being lost in unexpected snowstorms , in an unconquered wilderness totally alien to his suburb-bred son .
18 The monotony is relieved somewhat if you have the opportunity to talk to a fellow traveller who feels the same about long train journeys , then you have something in common besides moaning about the rigours of train travel .
19 2.30AM Outside a gutted supermarket , I stop to talk to a group of young men pelting two carloads of police with pilfered eggs .
20 Surprisingly more than half the girls — even though they were aware of their right to confidentiality — would be to embarrassed to talk to a doctor about sex or contraception .
21 A quarter of the boys said they would be prepared to talk to a teacher about sex as opposed to only one in 10 girls .
22 May be if they taught us about it at school boys would find it easier to talk to a girl about sex and things like that . ’
23 There are no easy answers , but it will help to get as much information as you can and to talk to a sympathetic doctor of midwife before making a decision .
24 That was his happiness , to talk to a captured ear was for him the thrill of seeing the Commandant 's office roofless and destroyed .
25 To talk to a doctor one was first required to outmanoeuvre the often formidable receptionist .
26 Therefore if an SAA program wants to talk to a Unix sockets-based program , it ca n't — however two SAA programs will be able to talk over TCP/IP and two Unix applications will be able to communicate over an SNA network .
27 Jack 's tactic was to keep as far away from his team-mates as possible — not difficult , because he was hitting the ball pretty straight and the Sunningdale amateur , who was also fairly straight , did n't really want to talk to a pro golfer .
28 ( Elizabeth Wilson recorded once realising that she was more than usually anxious about the question of what to wear when she was going to talk to a feminist group . )
29 It would boost their egos to talk to a director of a leading bank , or a key man in a well-known company as an equal , and it was incredibly revealing how little such high up people seemed to know about shares , how desperately motivated they were by greed .
30 After I 'd persuaded Hawkbit here to join us , I was just starting to talk to a few more , when I found that Toadflax fellow had followed me down the run .
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