Example sentences of "talk to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Last week , Jarman had n't quite decided whether they were to talk to the audience or simply sleep through the exhibition 's four-day run — ‘ although they 'll be allowed to get up for a pee and lunch , ’ he added generously . |
| 32 | Nusrat Bhutto , Pakistan 's deputy prime minister who is leading its delegation to the UN General Assembly , said in New York that Moscow had agreed to talk to the mujahedin on the establishment of an interim government in Kabul that would involve the present Soviet-backed administration . |
| 33 | Michael Hanley , his solicitor , said : ‘ He will be isolated , with no other Kurds to talk to , and I fear it will make his mental state even worse . |
| 34 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 35 | Some stop to talk to the hunger strikers . |
| 36 | ‘ The whole time since I heard that Walter would be released unconditionally I have been wondering how things will work with him being allowed out at night and to talk to whoever he wishes and me sitting at home in the evenings , gagged . ’ |
| 37 | Fielding notes how some constables subsume these negotiating skills under the category of ‘ talk ’ , which gives meaning to their complaint that many younger policemen seem no longer to know how to talk to members of the public ( 1988b : 60 ; also see Holdaway 1983 : 90 ; Southgate 1982 : 11–12 ) . |
| 38 | To some constables ‘ common sense ’ is knowing how to talk to people : |
| 39 | You 've got to be able to talk to people on their own level , you get the best out of people if you treat them a certain way . |
| 40 | The injured policewoman added , ‘ She just needed someone to talk to , I think ’ ( FN 25/9/87 , p. 24 ) . |
| 41 | As another said , ‘ Being a neighbourhood man , you get to know all the people in the area to chat to them , and they know you to talk to and that ’ ( FN 28/4/87 p. 5 ) . |
| 42 | If they had to be responsible for choosing the leaders of the Church , they needed information and their secretaries should be able to talk to people who had the information . |
| 43 | From Eric Abbott he went on to Canterbury to talk to the archbishop , Geoffrey Fisher . |
| 44 | He liked to show parties of visitors round the house and to talk to them of Oswald , or Hild , or Cosin , or Lightfoot . |
| 45 | Before I even had a chance to talk to him he was all round the shop talking to everyone . |
| 46 | I went into another room to talk to a Scientology person . |
| 47 | And she did not want to talk to anyone . |
| 48 | Nat turned and shouted this garbled message to me and I hooked my dogs to a tree and went forward to talk to him . |
| 49 | Every delegation sent out by the strikers to talk to workers at other factories consisted of two men and two women . |
| 50 | You must n't ever try to talk to me about her or I 'll leave the home . ’ |
| 51 | They were happy , relaxed children and seemed keen to talk to me about themselves . |
| 52 | They would have to talk to her today . |
| 53 | That 'll do for now , but I may want to talk to you again . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ I said we 'd have to talk to everyone in the darts club , ’ said Burden , stopping down at the water 's edge , ‘ and I reckon we have . |
| 55 | I understand you want to talk to me about the late Mr Hatton . |
| 56 | Strangers , I mean , that he wanted to talk to alone ? ’ |
| 57 | I thought you might like to talk to him . ’ |
| 58 | I 'm glad I got Satan — it 's someone to talk to . |
| 59 | I walk round the room sort of smiling and sometimes waving or stopping to talk to someone . |
| 60 | If I was with someone else I 'd have to talk to them or hurry to keep up with them , but this way I can go at my own speed . |