Example sentences of "spoke to him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boss sounded agitated when I spoke to him over the phone . ’ |
| 2 | The children stood on the top step and spoke to him over the half-door . |
| 3 | His spirits sank again at the prospect and although he went out to Ruislip where his former battalion now had its headquarters , and although he was received by Colonel Bumford , his spirits were at zero three days later when Charity spoke to him on the telephone . |
| 4 | ‘ I spoke to him on Sunday night and he wished me all the best , while I thanked him . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I spoke to him on the phone and he sounds a tough customer . |
| 6 | He met poets like Ungharetti and Montale , and had an audience with Pope Pius XII — the Pontiff spoke to him on the theme of poetry and religion , although Eliot knew quite enough about that subject already . |
| 7 | I spoke to him on the telephone . ’ |
| 8 | She did not reply to his cards , and when she spoke to him on the telephone he said she always declined his invitations firmly . |
| 9 | From the warmth in her voice , she spoke to him on the comm , I began to suspect that she and Chertro might have been more than friends at one time . |
| 10 | ‘ No , I spoke to him on the phone . |
| 11 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
| 12 | ‘ I spoke to him on the phone to complain about him putting my name in an article . |
| 13 | ‘ We spoke to him on Saturday , and he told us that he and the rest of the team were safe and well , ’ Mr McNeilage said . |
| 14 | I spoke to him on Wednesday , I phoned him . |
| 15 | That confidence was echoed by Peter Scudamore when I spoke to him at Towcester yesterday . |
| 16 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 17 | " I did n't know him — I only spoke to him for a few minutes , but David Fairfax recognised him . " |
| 18 | The gentleman , however , being a diplomat , spoke to him as an equal . |
| 19 | ‘ John spoke to him about the inadvisability of running errands on racecourses for his warned-off father , and said that if Jason had any information , he should pass it on to him , John Millington . |
| 20 | I spoke to him about this and he confided that it was a mixture of polyurethane and Danish oil . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Spoke to him about child who had epileptic fit in coach on journey to School this morning and he supplied further details . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And erm we spoke to the Chairman during the afternoon in his house and was talking to him and spoke to him about erm an accident he 'd had in the quarry . |
| 26 | Peter Stalker spoke to him about his work in Argentina and France . |
| 27 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 28 | Earlier this afternoon I spoke to him about his party 's ailing fortunes in the year since the General Election . |
| 29 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 30 | And Anwar was very patient with Changez , and spoke to him like a four-year-old , which was the right thing to do . |