Example sentences of "[be] speak to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't make eye contact if you 're speaking to a piece of paper . |
| 2 | You ca n't be persuasive if you 're speaking to a piece of paper , if you 're reading from a script . |
| 3 | What do we need to ensure in terms of pitch when we 're speaking to a group of people ? |
| 4 | Well now the the thing is and you 're speaking to an expert here |
| 5 | If you are nervous before having to use your voice , whether you are speaking to a conference or about to ask the bank manager for a loan , the first secret of success is to feel those nerves instead of tensing yourself against them . |
| 6 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 7 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 8 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 9 | ‘ The members of this delegation will be speaking to a number of prisoners . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
| 12 | It 's like you were speaking to a foreigner you know a French person or something . |
| 13 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 14 | A French Officer is speaking to a small group of NCOs as a thick mist is forming all around . |
| 15 | Thus , if you know the speaker is the prime minister or the departmental secretary or your family doctor or your mother , and you know that the speaker is speaking to a colleague or his bank manager or a small child , you will have different expectations of the sort of language which will be produced , both with respect to form and to content . |
| 16 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 17 | I was speaking to a lad who left my office |
| 18 | She said the word Chepén several times , as though she was speaking to a particularly stupid servant , Tolambo , too , the Hacienda Tolambo , and at the same time she made a circling motion with her hand , ending up with her finger pointed at the road ahead and the jagged peaks of the cordillera disembodied in a ragged mist hole . |
| 19 | A minute or two later he was speaking to a suave gentleman anxious to steer a safe course between Scylla and Charybdis . |
| 20 | He was speaking to a bald-headed man . |
| 21 | There are also in many languages forms reserved for authorized recipients , including restrictions on most titles of address ( Your Honour , Mr President , etc. ) ; in Tunica there were pronouns that differed not only with sex of referent , but also with the sex of the addressee , so that there were , for example , two words for " they " , depending on whether one was speaking to a man or a woman ( Haas , ibid . ) . |
| 22 | He was speaking to a thousand students at the Oxford Union . |
| 23 | But he was speaking to an already retreating Pascoe . |
| 24 | David was speaking to an Australian radio station shortly before lawyers acting for the Princess issued writs against and the gym owner . |