Example sentences of "spoken to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've spoken to her and she 's interested . ’ |
| 2 | He had never spoken to her like that before . |
| 3 | She has n't spoken to her since . |
| 4 | She had not seen Angela since the weekend before the one on which she had disappeared , but had spoken to her twice on the telephone . |
| 5 | I 've never spoken to her myself but I know Angela had found it necessary to get her solicitor to write . ’ |
| 6 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've spoken to her ? |
| 8 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 9 | He had n't spoken to her since the day before her father resigned . |
| 10 | Although I had already spoken to her about past lives , Maxine was not at all sure that she believed in the concept . |
| 11 | I have spoken to her already but she 's in a lot of distress . ’ |
| 12 | Her father , the Earl of Mexborough , said at his York home : ‘ I have n't spoken to her , so I do n't know if it 's true the couple have broken up . ’ |
| 13 | Her father , the Earl of Mexborough , said : ‘ I have n't spoken to her , so I do n't know if it 's true the couple have broken up . ’ |
| 14 | Her father , the Earl of Mexborough , said at his York home : ‘ I have n't spoken to her , so I do n't know if it 's true the couple have broken up . ’ |
| 15 | I turned again to Ellen , pretty freckled Ellen with her high cheekbones and clever green eyes and flaming hair and mocking smile , and I suddenly wondered whether McIllvanney had spoken to her again in the last week . |
| 16 | Papa , of course , was an actor , and had spoken to her about the pit and the gallery , the stage , the curtain and dressing-rooms . |
| 17 | From the lake the coypu man would have seen Rufus sleeping under the umbrella on the terrace and no doubt also seen Mary and probably spoken to her — have practically been assaulted by her . |
| 18 | Have you ever spoken to her about the problem ? ’ |
| 19 | He had never seen or spoken to her since . |
| 20 | Rebecca 's sister Karen said : ‘ It sounds true , but I have not spoken to her . |
| 21 | Make up some tale that I 've spoken to her on me rounds . |
| 22 | I , I have n't spoken to her , since the last meeting , so |
| 23 | He had never spoken to her before about his wife and son . |
| 24 | He felt a sense of guilt but at the same time knew he could never have spoken to her anyway . |
| 25 | It was the first he time had spoken to her since leaving the harbour . |
| 26 | I 've been to Fincara 's Isle and spoken to her ! ’ |
| 27 | The Doctor had never spoken to her about sockets under the console . |
| 28 | For in her heart she trusted the powers of Callanish that had spoken to her and she believed the day would come when he would go free . |
| 29 | It is your land , Creggan , it is yours … ’ and she spoke to him gently as so often in the past he had spoken to her . |
| 30 | He 'd spoken to her often enough . |