Example sentences of "she [modal v] talk to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilkie said it was Alexander she ought to talk to about Van Gogh and Hodgkiss said Alexander was an excellent example of what he was talking about , the effect of this light , the difficulty of fixing colours . |
| 2 | He had drawn up a long list of people she ought to talk to during the day : fashion houses , designers , a couple of artists ' studios , a gallery specializing in contemporary prints . |
| 3 | Time was getting short ; she must talk to Dana , and this time she was going right to the top . |
| 4 | She sounds desperately unhappy , poor thing , and perhaps she should talk to a psychiatrist . |
| 5 | She 'll talk to you and give you advice and say , ‘ Now behave yourself , do n't get into no trouble . ’ |
| 6 | Elliott said , ‘ She 'll talk to the police if she talks at all — who else ? ’ |
| 7 | Mind she 's very lonely , she 's on her own you know and she 'll talk to anybody |
| 8 | But I , does but when you say that now though , cos I , he slagged Kirsty off to me , he just said oh she 's just really pretentious and she 'll , she 'll talk to you and then as soon as someone cooler comes in the room she 'll turn round and she 'll completely ignore you and you 're left and she 'll do that like at a dinner party or something and you 're left standing there feeling a real id you know , you know that feeling do n't you when you 're talking to someone and suddenly they desert you and you 're all on your own in a room ? |
| 9 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 10 | Had she really thought she could talk to me ? |
| 11 | The Queen had already heard rumours about the couple 's problems — but it really sank home just a year ago when Sarah asked if she could talk to her about ‘ a very personal matter ’ . |
| 12 | She rather liked it , not least because it was wonderful to have someone of her own , someone she could talk to . |
| 13 | That was her desperate need : to have someone she could talk to . |
| 14 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 15 | She could talk to her about Mama . |
| 16 | And it gave her the security of knowing there was someone she could talk to , someone she could count on . |
| 17 | Mrs , for her part , did n't want a culture-less idiot for progeny but someone she could talk to as an adult : i.e. , she did n't want someone too like his father . |
| 18 | Someone she could talk to at last ! |
| 19 | Oh , she could talk to Charlie about anything . |
| 20 | ‘ Promise you wo n't tell him , ’ Travis interrupted , and Leith knew then that she could talk to him until she was blue in the face , but he was just not hearing . |
| 21 | And Dr Rafaelo was the kind of man she felt she could talk to openly . |
| 22 | I 'm sure she 'd talk to you , Dr Kent . |
| 23 | Most remarkably , she used to talk to the girl about her grandfather 's dying : |
| 24 | she used to talk to me , well in the summer an that , you know , on about she 's , I do n't know |
| 25 | Madame imagined that while she was doing this to Boy she would tell him everything she knew , she would talk to him quietly each night whilst brushing his hair before bedtime . |
| 26 | ‘ She would talk to me about everything but the subject that mattered . |
| 27 | Was that how she would talk to her staff , in that faintly surrealist way ? |
| 28 | Perhaps she would talk to me . ’ |
| 29 | When the wedding was over , she would talk to Monique , place the transaction in her hands . |
| 30 | She had often tired him with her chatter , with her bursts of personal revelations , ‘ Today I feel this — yesterday I felt that , ’ but suddenly he wished she would talk to him . |