Example sentences of "speak to [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ . |
| 2 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 3 | Do you think you could speak to them on my behalf ? ’ |
| 4 | Any teacher who tries to devise a syllabus for a music class that will appeal to the members of the class for its relevance , or who attempts to attract the English class by giving them things to read or act that will speak to them in their own language is in danger of falling into the trap of ‘ thinking down ’ to his pupils , of condescending to them . |
| 5 | When will you go and speak to him about it ? ’ |
| 6 | The church was very full and although Amabel could not speak to everyone on her progress to the front pew she paused before taking her seat and smiled sweetly , generally , at the congregation , hoping that no one would feel left out . |
| 7 | I 'll maybe speak to her about it a week , a week on Wednesday I I assume she 'll be back then . |
| 8 | She 's been in Paris on business for two days , but she 'll be back this evening , so you can speak to her about it . ’ |
| 9 | she , she used to go on about it and all this and I , I sort of fell out with her at one time , but did n't actually speak to her about it |
| 10 | You must come and speak to me about him when he is older . ’ |
| 11 | Do n't speak to me of her again . |
| 12 | ‘ Can I speak to you about it this afternoon ? ’ |
| 13 | See now , there 's a lot of people who will speak to you friendly out on the street and there 's a lot more of them who 'll speak to you inside their own homes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You just say , ‘ Come on ’ — speak to them in their own language and they 'll understand you . |
| 16 | The reply was , ‘ Not Rs5,000 , Your Ex cell ency , but Rs25,000 , but now that you speak to me about it I will not take it . ’ |
| 17 | Not us not us , every time I speak to somebody about something , you know marketing can do it , y'know everybody 's d giving away free tickets as a way out of y'know compensate the people , re-dressing the situation . |
| 18 | Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people . |
| 19 | In a moment we 'll be speaking to him about his son 's plight , but first we go over to Switzerland where our reporter , John Marshall , has been following the story . |
| 20 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |
| 21 | This is my lovely Ma speaking to me in her love voice . |
| 22 | Make up some tale that I 've spoken to her on me rounds . |
| 23 | She had spoken to her about it , not sharply , of course — she could never do that — but with disappointment to which Gemma had calmly replied , " Mother , I told you all along that I did n't want to live in the country . |
| 24 | He had not spoken to her about it . |
| 25 | The raillery with which he had spoken to her in her early days at Vetch Street had changed its nature . |
| 26 | And he did say to me well he has spoken to me about it , he did say answering the telephone . |
| 27 | This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically . |
| 28 | When one thinks about it , when one remembers the way Miss Kenton had repeatedly spoken to me of my father during those early days of her time at Darlington Hall , it is little wonder that the memory of that evening should have stayed with her all of these years . |
| 29 | He has n't properly spoken to me since our refusal to carry drugs . |
| 30 | Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her . |