Example sentences of "[verb] speak [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say speak after the beep , beep . |
| 2 | I have the greatest sympathy for hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , but there is a principle involved and it is about time that my right hon. and learned Friend stopped speaking as a lawyer and started acting as a politician . |
| 3 | She stopped speaking as the buzzer on his desk interrupted her . |
| 4 | Shlomo Green stopped speaking for a moment . |
| 5 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 6 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |
| 7 | Jinny was so amazed that she stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence and let him say goodbye and make their apologies all over again . |
| 8 | There is his Author 's Note to Victorious Troy to assure us that he has spoken with a boy whose experience had been similar to that of Dick Pomfret and that cases where dismasted sailing ships without officers had been brought to port by boys were not unknown , but we hardly need this assurance in order to believe that Dick , not unaided but with a responsibility beyond his years , did in fact bring the Hurrying Angel home in the end . |
| 9 | For twenty years since , it has spoken with the voice of Africa ‘ for a hate-free , fear-free , greed-free world ’ . |
| 10 | She has spoken at the UN and given lectures abroad in which she has tried to draw attention to Central America 's most beautiful and most tragic republic . |
| 11 | During the last six months , the Guild has spoken to a number of representatives of caterers , dieticians , nurses , doctors and , in particular , the Patients ' Association and the College of Health , and discovered that the quality of hospital food is highly variable . |
| 12 | A decision on Cruising Altitude 's participation in the Bula Hurdle will be made after the trainer has spoken to the jockeys at today 's meeting . |
| 13 | A decision on Cruising Altitude 's participation in the Bula Hurdle will be made after the trainer has spoken to the jockeys at today 's meeting . |
| 14 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 heart-throb Luke Perry has spoken for the first time of his nightmare childhood with a drunken father who beat up his mother . |
| 15 | Sheila Silcock has spoken for the first time about her anger when her son Ben was banned from a MIND drop-in centre in Roehampton , south-west London . |
| 16 | The West German Foreign Minister has spoken of a ‘ new European Peace Order , ’ Lord Callaghan of a new Concert of Europe . |
| 17 | Ivars has spoken of a Soviet based in the country who has been building what he terms a ‘ Sky Bug ’ but what we in the FlyPast office think must be a Flying Flea of sorts . |
| 18 | Mr Baker has spoken of the renewed ‘ need for American leadership ’ . |
| 19 | Dr Ward has spoken of the potential effects on children who were unborn at the time of the incident . |
| 20 | He has spoken of the principle and the command . |
| 21 | More recently , professor Griffith has spoken of the need for a new jurisprudence for public law , which he suggests might best be founded on some ( unspecified ) modern variant of utilitarianism ( Griffith , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | Many of the more senior academics have left university employment and the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has spoken of the threat this poses to academic leadership . |
| 23 | Australian author Helen Hodgman has spoken of the misconception of Australia as a liberal country , saying that it 's no good for women , gays or ( come to that ) lizards . |
| 24 | Although certainly no fan of Guns N'Roses and their offensive lyrics , I am pleased that he has spoken about the still largely-hidden subject of male sexual assault . |
| 25 | I tried to speak with the landlord but was driven off for what I seemed — a ragged , evil-smelling beggar . |
| 26 | Ignoring his mother , Putt tried to speak to the pot-man , but could only utter unintelligible noises . |
| 27 | " Are you — he tried to speak as a real writer would one of my regular readers ? " |
| 28 | Top dealers with plummy accents who had passed the registered Representatives ' and Traders ' examination were primed to speak with the inspectors . |
| 29 | Lucenzo bent to speak to the boatman . |
| 30 | Interestingly , after September 1987 factory and mines inspectors were forbidden to speak to the press on pain of disciplinary action . |