Example sentences of "[coord] speak [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Go and speak to the old man of the woods . |
| 32 | This inflicted great sorrow on their families , for without burial of the flesh , the victims would become phantoms and speak to the living without ever finding rest . |
| 33 | Finally , the shaman ( priest ) of the tribe decided to go alone to the top of the hill and speak to the Great Spirits . |
| 34 | You can go to the hearing and speak to the Appeal Committee yourself . |
| 35 | Then Minch would talk quietly to Creggan and speak of the lore of golden eagles which his parents had begun to tell him . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 38 | But how many people do you know who smile broadly at you , and speak in a calm and controlled manner , when all along they are fuming inside and never show it ? |
| 39 | I swallow and speak in a tremor . |
| 40 | Pray and speak in the church , and search the forge for money . |
| 41 | ‘ I am Montague , Earl of Salisbury , and speak in the name of the most illustrious Edward , by God 's grace King of England , France , Ireland and Wales , and Lord Paramount of Scotland . |
| 42 | We pray for the representatives of each nation present in Madrid , and especially for those who lead and speak in the meetings . |
| 43 | Also I wish she would drop the ‘ lor ra , lor ra ’ business and speak in an ordinary voice . |
| 44 | On education , for example , and speaking as a headmaster , it seemed to him that Qaddafi had written sensible things . |
| 45 | Hooks takes the title , Talking Back , from her childhood , when it meant forgetting one 's place and speaking as an equal to adults . |
| 46 | Your friend awaits you , I think , ’ he added , nodding towards the courtyard where Iris was standing beside Melissa 's car , and speaking for the first time in faultless English instead of French . |
| 47 | Eyeing her and Nigel and speaking to the air . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | But even as she spoke she recalled his handing in her key and speaking to the clerk , then both of them looking across at her . |
| 50 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 51 | To increase public knowledge , he set about creating Britain 's first comprehensive design guide for houseowners , called Do It In Style , which Wandsworth Council are now publishing , as well as writing and speaking on the subject . |
| 52 | ‘ Disturbance ? ’ asked Geoff , opening the station door and speaking over the back of my head . |
| 53 | You are expressing your personal responses , and speaking from the heart as much as from the head , so there is no need to try and paint an apparently ‘ objective ’ picture with appeal to the intellect . |
| 54 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |
| 55 | In the early scenes she sometimes seems less like a human than a terrified wild animal , and she is in extraordinary form in her first public apppearance at Mrs Higgins 's tea party , moving with the stiffness of an automaton and speaking in a voice that sounds like a Martian after a course at the Berlitz . |
| 56 | She had stretched out , lying on her back and speaking in a little girly voice . |
| 57 | " Ma , where are your shoes ? " asked Martha , drawing her mother aside and speaking in an urgent , almost tragic undertone . |
| 58 | On the day I spoke to him , his wizened granite-faced skipper Kepler Wessels ( who is almost the antithesis of Rhodes ) had sat down and spoken to the 22-year-old from Natal about his game . |
| 59 | Mother Francis had taken the bus to their convent in Dublin and spoken to the very difficult Mother Clare who held sway there . |
| 60 | Jacob had rung instantly and spoken to the man who now sat opposite him . |