Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] speak [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young , red-haired man , dressed simply in a leather jerkin , leggings and boots , came up to Corbett and spoke in an accent the English clerk could not even hope to follow . |
| 2 | Shortly before he died Churchill visited Biggin Hill and spoke of the role it had played when Britain stood alone against Germany . |
| 3 | The last task of the day for the humanitarian branch is to visit the village of Mammari and speak to the local farmers . |
| 4 | Soon some doctors came from Washington and spoke to the workers . |
| 5 | Eyeing her and Nigel and speaking to the air . |
| 6 | ‘ did use ( or cause , or permit … to use ) ’ 'Use' is generally proved by the observation of the police officer to the effect ‘ I stopped the motor vehicle … which was being driven in Queens Street and spoke to the driver … |
| 7 | We would go down to the Seine and speak of water , boats and fish ; or we would go to the public park , where a few birds languished in an ancient aviary and the old mynah bird entertained us with a lavish range of endearments . |
| 8 | Rather , many speakers " construct " the language they variously call Creole , Patois , black talk , bad talk or Jamaican on the basis of a collection of stereotypical features which are associated with JC as spoken in Jamaica . |
| 9 | Every day , at 10am , Grachev picks up the telephone to Yeltsin and speaks for five minutes . |
| 10 | I decided to delay informing him of my visit to the Orne and speaking to the Artillerymen who were sending the shells over our heads . |
| 11 | Eventually , I found out about the Dog Welfare and Rescue Society in Stokenchurch and spoke to the kennel manager who said just what I had been longing to hear . |
| 12 | Even if one were to , as I do , empathize with sophisticated functional Marxism of , say , G. A. Cohen and speak of the compatibility or incompatibility of certain sets of cultural forms with certain other sets of production relations , one would still be looking for an explanation of the specific properties of those cultural forms . |
| 13 | To begin with , liberal theologians thought of the Holy Spirit of God as speaking to contemporary man through those elements in Bible or Church tradition which accorded best with their own insights . |
| 14 | And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was . |
| 15 | She spurred close to Lord Wyatt and spoke in a voice full of soft malice : ‘ They know what the bloody hell it is ! |
| 16 | She turned to Beuno and spoke of lighter matters until darkness descended . |
| 17 | Margy comes from Newcastle and speaks with a Geordie accent . |
| 18 | Mr Major ranged beyond the EC and spoke of a feeling in the air of a better Europe to be built . |
| 19 | Wilekin 's offers to Dame Sirith are inverted in the next dialogue , where Dame Sirith goes to Margery and speaks with her . |
| 20 | Now if I 'm presenting my centre line to Tony and speaking to him that feels fine yeah , but if I talk to you Dave over my shoulder like that I mean how does that feel ? |
| 21 | I have made many friends through the C.B. and speak to them regularly and I have then met some of them . |
| 22 | Then Minch would talk quietly to Creggan and speak of the lore of golden eagles which his parents had begun to tell him . |
| 23 | ‘ I was then introduced by telephone to Mr Ford and spoke to him but I was extremely unhappy with some of the explanations that Mr Ford had given . |
| 24 | Mother Francis had taken the bus to their convent in Dublin and spoken to the very difficult Mother Clare who held sway there . |