Example sentences of "talk to [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
2 | It was difficult to talk to him with this going on . |
3 | And when one of them did choose her , she found herself quite unable to talk to him at all . |
4 | I saw him a lot at the Ehukai Beach Park where he was based , but only managed to talk to him at any length at a party in the hills . |
5 | erm , I have n't , I was gon na go and , I tried phoning Lorne one time I was going through to Glasgow just to see if I could , can I have a , can I have a pint with him or something , erm , just to chew it over cos he suggested you know he 'd made various helpful suggestions , in the meantime I did n't manage to meet him , but in the meantime I did manage to speak to my father-in-law who has a camcorder and er he will be more than happy to erm , he 's also got editing equipment , he would be more than happy you know , to do the home made video that we 've talked about , I need to talk to him about this because the obvious place to do will be the Lyceum on one of your shows |
6 | His father said not to talk to him like that , so Tom walked out and went to live with his grandmother in Rickmansworth . |
7 | I simply did n't recognize her at first , and to tell you the truth , I was a bit embarrassed when Uncle Félix came over to talk to me with this perfectly stunning girl on his arm . |
8 | He came to talk to me about that . |
9 | Do you want to talk to me about that in the tutorial first or would that be ? |
10 | ‘ Who do you think you are , to talk to me in that manner ? ’ |
11 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |
12 | ‘ To talk to me like that , you must be who you claim to be — no one else would dare do such a thing ! ’ |
13 | I 'll feel good inside me 'cos she should n't dare to talk to me like that 'cos I 've never said to 'er noffink like that , you know . |
14 | On we walk , discussing hobbies , like two old geezers , and she tells e how nice it is to talk to me like this as sometimes she feels she has n't got to know me as well as she would have liked . |
15 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
16 | How had Keith dared to talk to her like that ? |
17 | He 'd desperately needed to talk to someone about this and when he 'd thought about it , William was the only person he could talk to . |
18 | We walked along the intersecting tyke walls and met a voluntary warden eager to talk to us about some of the work carried out on the reserve . |
19 | I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all . |
20 | ‘ I want to talk to you about that . ’ |
21 | ‘ I 've been meaning to talk to you about that . ’ |
22 | ‘ Marjorie , I 've got to talk to you about this business , but I ca n't do it now . |
23 | ‘ … I wanted to talk to you about this and that . ’ |
24 | We will be glad to talk to you about this before you borrow . |
25 | The phone rings and a guy says , ‘ I want to talk to you about this . ’ |
26 | Encourage them to talk to you about any worries or problems they may have . |
27 | He 's talked to me about all that stuff too . |
28 | I did n't mind , I was happy that he still talked to me at all . |
29 | He had n't talked to her like that for ages . |
30 | No one had ever talked to her like this before , and she was n't at all sure how the game — if it really was a game — should be played . |