Example sentences of "i spoke to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , I 've got to get back to some people I spoke to this morning . |
| 2 | ‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way . |
| 3 | If you 're vaguely interested I can arrange an interview with the lady I spoke to on their resettlement team , but if you do n't like the sound of it … ’ |
| 4 | The woman I spoke to on the phone realised this immediately and within the hour a man in a boiler suit arrived . |
| 5 | When I spoke to Andrew , he and Wendy were tending a farm for friends away on holiday . |
| 6 | Bobby Robson said : ‘ I spoke to Bryan and he declared himself fit and willing to join up with the party . |
| 7 | Dudley Wood , the Rugby Football Union 's secretary , said yesterday : ‘ I spoke to Brian Moore a little while ago because there was a story that he had been offered money , although the amount was n't specified . |
| 8 | Nobody I spoke to regretted the money they had spent . |
| 9 | An official I spoke to said there were no staff to take the train on and we had to leave and wait for another to come along . ’ |
| 10 | I spoke to one of the medics , he informed me that the attack on the village just along the road was under way and already there were many casualties , particularly among 6 Commando , due to the heavy shelling from the Allied and German guns . |
| 11 | As I spoke to Chauvet and several other Commandos scattered around the orchard , I was impressed by their determination to stay here in France , no matter what . |
| 12 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 13 | Many other women I spoke to told me that for protection from racial attacks it was essential to have Asian neighbours . |
| 14 | The hospital staff I spoke to were almost without exception complacent on the subject of interpreters . |
| 15 | But I will not mention here every group or Asian immigrants in Britain , nor analyse every family structure , but present what the Asian women I spoke to told me about their feelings and situations . |
| 16 | Many of the Muslim women I spoke to told me that their husbands were unfaithful to them usually with white women ( see for example p. 123 of ‘ Sisters in Struggle ’ ) . |
| 17 | Many women I spoke to hardly bothered with a Dupatta indoors while others told me in whispers that they wore it only because their mothers-in-law insisted . |
| 18 | Hierarchy in Asian joint families depends on age and sex but the Sikh women I spoke to all told me that in their families the disciplinarians and rulers were always men . |
| 19 | After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers . |
| 20 | The women I spoke to were almost always subsidiary wage earners ; the money they brought in was essential for survival but was not the main wage of the family and their jobs were often far more unpleasant than their husband 's . |
| 21 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 22 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 23 | Some months after I spoke to Feroza I learnt that she had had to return to Pakistan . |
| 24 | The children under eleven I spoke to almost invariably had a sense of inferiority similar to that of a colonised people . |
| 25 | Only a minority of teachers I spoke to were interested in the way of life of their Asian pupils and an even smaller number knew anything about it . |
| 26 | I spoke to Sikh and Hindu children in Southall and none of them had been withdrawn from religious education lessons . |
| 27 | Girls of twelve to fifteen I spoke to in Harlesden said that the worst aspect of their lives was the bullying and racism they faced in school . |
| 28 | The girls I spoke to rarely discussed their problems at school with their parents . |
| 29 | ‘ I confess that I have not addressed such a large gathering since I spoke to 40,000 Gujerati buffalo farmers in India in 1980 , and that was a rare experience . ’ |
| 30 | I think it might be easier on Mr O'Shea if I spoke to him alone . ’ |