Example sentences of "[pron] speak [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never did I speak for the truth 's sake but for my own … ‘ |
| 2 | Caller : May I speak to the manager ? |
| 3 | May I speak to the Commander , please ? ’ |
| 4 | and I says , Good afternoon could I speak to the person that does advertising etcetera , and I get through to that particular person , and I said , How would you like to save money by us printing all your portfolios free of charge high quality er portfolios it would n't cost you a penny . |
| 5 | So anyway , I went through and I said to could I speak to the manager ? |
| 6 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 7 | If there is n't , I speak to the manager and arrange a meeting . |
| 8 | I speak to the reporter who wrote the piece . |
| 9 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 10 | ( When I speak of the value of the whole , I mean what Moore calls its value on the whole , that is the values of its parts plus its value as a whole . ) |
| 11 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 12 | For when I speak of the community being faithful to its own principles I do not mean its conventional or popular morality , the beliefs and convictions of most citizens . |
| 13 | Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels , as I often do , Harry still goes and does whatever he wants . |
| 14 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 15 | ‘ As your commanding officer , I 'm the senior member of the Board and I speak for the others . |
| 16 | ‘ And , ’ continued the badger ceremoniously , ‘ I am sure I speak for the entire population in wishing you all the very best in driving away this menace in our midst . |
| 17 | I speak for the first time . |
| 18 | I think I speak for the vast majority of the environmental health committee when I say that the abatement and noise pollution has been one of our ongoing major concerns in things for the last twelve months . |
| 19 | I speak as a father . |
| 20 | There 's nothing more soul- destroying ( and I speak as a seasoned dieter here ! ) than those inflexible diet regimes : no meals out , no dinner parties , no treats . |
| 21 | But then I do n't hold with the precept de mortuis nil nisi bonum ( I speak as a doctor , after all ) ; and it 's hard to underestimate the irritation when a critic points out something like that to you . |
| 22 | I speak as a forty-three-year-old . |
| 23 | One welcomes the provision that housing associations can make , and I speak as a member of the management committee of a housing association . |
| 24 | I speak as a representative who came into the House as a result of the murder just 10 years ago of the then Member for Belfast , South . |
| 25 | It is mind-blowing , and I speak as an expert . |
| 26 | I speak as an hon. Member who has served time on four such Bills during the four years that I have been in the House — the City of London ( Various Powers ) Bill , the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill , and the London Underground Bills Nos. 1 and 2 . |
| 27 | I speak into the entry system . |
| 28 | The hay rick well it was That was what I speak about a a a cole Tramp cole where the hay r Hay was the tramp cole . |
| 29 | I speak in a drone . |
| 30 | ‘ I speak in no spirit of complaint , Carrington , ’ Hawkins said , ‘ but you 're not very encouraging . |