Example sentences of "to talk to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and Norma were escorted out of Jeffrey Archer 's Bridal Suite and back to their own and since it was not safe to leave the hotel , Lady Thatcher accompanied them , as she wanted to talk to them about the progress of her Foundation . |
| 2 | A couple of clients had called me , and I would have time to talk to them in the morning ; and I had an invitation to a golf society day in a couple of weeks ' time . |
| 3 | Or one of us would rush into the dressing room just before curtain-up and tell Terry there was someone who urgently needed to talk to him on the phone . |
| 4 | I used to talk to Him on the wireless — still do sometimes . |
| 5 | And I have to talk to him on the phone and I 'm saying speak to him very well . |
| 6 | to know , we do n't say , had to talk to him through the Christmas presents it was lovely . |
| 7 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 8 | Now , just when she was bursting to talk to him about the job , he was going to be less than forthcoming . |
| 9 | She would have to talk to him about the flowers and the salmon . |
| 10 | He had asked her to talk to him about the things that troubled her , but she could not . |
| 11 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 12 | Anne claimed Joe to talk to him about the books she had read and all that had happened to her since he went away , and Terry and Stephen wanted to talk to him about football and their latest craze , greyhound racing . |
| 13 | Susan had tagged a uniformed cop on the beat ill the distance , and guessed she would n't want to talk to him about the corpse . |
| 14 | Perhaps she would get the chance later to talk to him about the ledgers . |
| 15 | He tries to persuade the children to talk to him about the things they feel they ca n't discuss with the staff . |
| 16 | Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children . |
| 17 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 18 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 19 | I understand you want to talk to me about the late Mr Hatton . |
| 20 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 21 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 22 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 23 | Since he refuses to talk to me over the phone , he 'll have the pleasure of talking to me in person instead ! |
| 24 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 25 | But Worcester police want to talk to her about the withdrawal of £130,000 from funds . |
| 26 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 27 | I 'm going to talk to somebody at the shop — the sister if possible . ’ |
| 28 | Another thing we 're going to talk to somebody from the N S P C C who 's coming in in a few moments to talk about Halloween trick or treating and stuff like that . |
| 29 | The Union leaders are going to send some doctors to the factory to talk to everyone about the dangers of uranium . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I said we 'd have to talk to everyone in the darts club , ’ said Burden , stopping down at the water 's edge , ‘ and I reckon we have . |