Example sentences of "[pron] be speaking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am speaking to you , ’ he said , ‘ from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street . |
| 2 | I am speaking on behalf of West Belfast Action for the Unemployed , a group of local community activists and welfare rights workers . |
| 3 | The books I am speaking of are , among others , books which pursue the idea of an escape from personality and from society , and in which personality and society are seen — as in Zuckerman 's letter to Maria — to be aspects of a single threat . |
| 4 | At the time I am speaking of , over and above the crofters with their tiny , and often sub-divided , holdings there were several thousand squatters in Lewis . |
| 5 | And I am speaking of the so-called infamous Gorbals . |
| 6 | I am speaking of 1933 and 1934 . |
| 7 | I am speaking about a special form of small-holding — the croft , as defined by the UK parliament in legislation , from the first Crofters Act of 1886 to the Act of 1976 which gave the crofter the right to purchase his holding on very favourable terms . |
| 8 | ‘ I am speaking from the home of Mrs Browning , ’ I said . |
| 9 | The announcement was first made by my right hon. Friend in the House of Lords during consideration of the emergency provisions Bill — as it then was — I am speaking from memory , but I believe that it was last May . |
| 10 | I am speaking from my own personal situation . |
| 11 | When it goes , I mean I 'm speaking as a resident of The Stow and I know there 's lot 's of complaints and shop keepers and er people in the flats and that round you know the shops there and you do feel a bit intimidated if you walk through The Stow at night . |
| 12 | I 'm speaking as a bus driver , yes , within a company that 's about to be privatized , and yes of course the bottom line is important and management think that it is vitally important and we know no longer get subsidies from any where including the Government , unlike your erm Local District Council , operated services so its very , very difficult for people in our position to actually keep services on the road if they do n't pay . |
| 13 | I mean I 'm speaking as a political animal because I watch all the television , I mean I take my wireless to bed and listen to the actually I was listening to the wireless at erm half past eleven when they started it , so I 'm not speaking as a person that sort of does n't watch or listen to the Gulf business , but I think it 's erm on too much . |
| 14 | Oh it should be covered definitely , I mean I watch I mean you 've got all the extended programmes , I mean last night I watched the nine o'clock news until ten o'clock and then the one o'clock news at dinner time until two and , and erm various things , I mean I think it 's quite enough myself , I mean I 'm speaking as an ex-soldier at seventy years old , and I think well I do n't think really that people necessarily want to hear it all , even the people who 've got people over there . |
| 15 | And I 'm not speaking for me and Jack , I 'm speaking for myself . |
| 16 | Personally , I 'm speaking for meself , not everybody could have had the jobs . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm speaking for Mr Garland at the art shop . |
| 18 | I 'm speaking for my myself here , so if anybody else is , is dying |
| 19 | Again , I 'm speaking on America 's behalf here because I do n't live in Europe . |
| 20 | Okay , I 'm speaking on behalf of reality . |
| 21 | I 'm speaking on behalf of Leeds City Council . |
| 22 | Councillor I I 'm speaking on it . |
| 23 | I 'm speaking of Gladstone . |
| 24 | And if someone wrecks our little houses or projects , let's not get too upset , because when night falls and we have to go indoors — I 'm speaking of our death — all those little houses will be useless ; we shall have to go into our Father 's house . |
| 25 | I do n't mean Fanny , I 'm speaking of Bathsheba ! |
| 26 | I 'm speaking of every day , every week , your life . |
| 27 | I mean I 'm speaking of someone whose work is of a different kind , and they do tend to be labelled probably because they seem to be around a lot , and obviously have some political influence on the area . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh God , every day it seems I 'm speaking to a mate who 's just been robbed , ’ said Woody , sometime Cross Key 's barman , in his thick Lancashire accent . |
| 29 | ‘ And please take that towel off your head and have the goodness to look at me when I 'm speaking to you ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ All right , ’ she spat , afraid of nothing now , resigned to being dismissed , ‘ I 'm speaking to the doctor ! |