Example sentences of "speak to [pers pn] about [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ . |
| 2 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 3 | When will you go and speak to him about it ? ’ |
| 4 | I 'll maybe speak to her about it a week , a week on Wednesday I I assume she 'll be back then . |
| 5 | She 's been in Paris on business for two days , but she 'll be back this evening , so you can speak to her about it . ’ |
| 6 | she , she used to go on about it and all this and I , I sort of fell out with her at one time , but did n't actually speak to her about it |
| 7 | You must come and speak to me about him when he is older . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Can I speak to you about it this afternoon ? ’ |
| 9 | The reply was , ‘ Not Rs5,000 , Your Ex cell ency , but Rs25,000 , but now that you speak to me about it I will not take it . ’ |
| 10 | Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had spoken to her about it , not sharply , of course — she could never do that — but with disappointment to which Gemma had calmly replied , " Mother , I told you all along that I did n't want to live in the country . |
| 13 | He had not spoken to her about it . |
| 14 | And he did say to me well he has spoken to me about it , he did say answering the telephone . |
| 15 | This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I think he 's spoken to you about me , and I 'm sorry he considers me to be unreliable : happy-go-lucky was how he described me , I imagine . |
| 18 | may already have spoken to you about her and my plan to have a training/recreation weekend in St Andrews ( Saturday ) and Edinburgh ( Friday evening and Sunday ) in the autumn , 19–21 November , |
| 19 | Perhaps that 's why when Unigram.X spoke to him about it later that day he put a surprisingly good face on ( UX No 417 ) . |
| 20 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 21 | Of course it 's not actually coffin-shaped , but that 's how Tony Hicks of the Hollies , who used an original Phantom XII on a number of the band 's hits ( including Look Through Any Window and I Ca n't Let Go ) referred to the guitar when I spoke to him about his original guitar . |
| 22 | Peter Stalker spoke to him about his work in Argentina and France . |
| 23 | Earlier this afternoon I spoke to him about his party 's ailing fortunes in the year since the General Election . |
| 24 | The only one who spoke to me about it was a police officer when I was in the police station : ‘ Why is a young girl like you destroying yourself on this stuff . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Steve McQueen was evidently a bit worried that I would n't get the accent right and , just before my big scene , he came up to me and spoke to me about it . |
| 26 | He has always been aware of his spiritual nature : ‘ When I was seven I was visited by 40 judged — beings of light — who spoke to me about my role here . |
| 27 | I remember my mother crying , daddy never spoke to us about it . |
| 28 | Sgt Mike Bennett said at Ormskirk Police Station : ‘ This was extremely traumatic for this lady and as yet we have been unable to speak to her about it . |
| 29 | She has done , I went to speak to her about it last Friday , but she was diverted cos |
| 30 | ‘ When you go back , Spatz will order you not to speak to me about anything to do with the Project . |