Example sentences of "not speak to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why will you not speak to me ? |
| 2 | Now , we can not speak to the government , but we can speak to you . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I wish you would not speak to me like that . |
| 4 | You did not speak to me next morning , nor for the whole of the next day . |
| 5 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 6 | I could not speak to anyone , but when the bridge players saw me they threw down their cards and jumped up from the table . |
| 7 | I am told there are two sisters who dwell under one roof , and can not speak to one another , for the one is a Free Churcher and the other is a Baptist ; and that one gave to the other cause of great offence , having put cream in the tea of the other when such kind office was not desired . |
| 8 | James Kilpatrick and William Dunlop did not speak to each other for 22 years , until a mutual friend arranged a reconciliation meeting in 1935 . |
| 9 | For the next four years a great part of my time was spent in secret meditation upon this subject , I could not speak to anybody about it for fear of giving pain . |
| 10 | She replied , ‘ No , you can not speak to him . |
| 11 | ‘ No , as I said , you can not speak to him . |
| 12 | If you 're confronted on the phone by someone you 'd rather not speak to , or asked to name a price or give information you 're not ready to give , then always ask if you can call back later . |
| 13 | Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ . |
| 14 | At two o'clock in the morning the doctor gave him a sedative and he went into a deep sleep , but when he awoke he did not speak to anyone , and the police found great difficulty in questioning him too . |
| 15 | This homunculus could not speak to him . |
| 16 | ‘ Mr Moreton , Sally is an old friend of mine and if I can not speak to her I would like to leave a message . ’ |
| 17 | l9 Moreover , the kairos approach can not speak to the fact of an all-male priesthood ( which God is supposed to have given to His church and to have been adequate in past ages ) precisely having been one of the factors making for the secondary position of women in society . |
| 18 | When Walter Ash rang her the next day she would not speak to him . |
| 19 | He would not speak to Claudia ; in despair she sent a message to Tom Fairfax in Nairobi . |
| 20 | She can not speak to anyone for fear you will fight them . |
| 21 | You must not speak to my daughter again — ever ! |
| 22 | Each contributed much , but they did not often speak to each other , and indeed almost literally could not speak to each other . |
| 23 | I did not speak to Harold Wilson or to Lady Falkender about the matter , since I was sure that strenuous efforts would be made to prevent disclosure , but I was equally sure from Denis Hamilton 's attitude that this would not succeed and it was therefore better not to try . |
| 24 | All the children were pleased to see her again , but she did not speak to Gilbert Blythe . |
| 25 | I did not speak to her during the journey , and when we arrived in Ruritania , I left the train at Zenda , a small town outside the capital . |
| 26 | She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him . |
| 27 | ‘ She did not speak to me , at all , for six months after that , ’ Phil said . |
| 28 | He could not speak to them , though his mouth tried to . |
| 29 | At first they did not speak to each other . |
| 30 | ‘ You do not speak to me like that . |