Example sentences of "[was/were] speak [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You looked wonderful , ’ she said , as if she were speaking to a ten-year-old after a school play . |
| 2 | It 's like you were speaking to a foreigner you know a French person or something . |
| 3 | I , I said I was sp you were speaking to an expert er so we went off at a blind tangent . |
| 4 | They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP . |
| 5 | Early this morning , officers were speaking to the man 's family to check on his movements before the incident . |
| 6 | ‘ You were speaking of a she ? ’ he said politely to them . |
| 7 | When you were speaking of the the hulks Nana , there were five hulks there . |
| 8 | Norman Tebbit and Cecil Parkinson were speaking at a meeting of the ‘ Conservative Way Forward ’ , a group of irreconcilables whose toast was to the Queen over the water . |
| 9 | So in the beginning do you think you were speaking about a whole afternoon and an evening to make the coffin or all day ? |
| 10 | Thing about boats you know you were speaking about the steamer coming back and forth to Wyre , but what kind of a boat service was there local boat service . |
| 11 | And er you were speaking about the gut factory . |
| 12 | They were speaking as a government minister was touring the estate , once described as the worst in Europe . |
| 13 | These are comments about young people which were spoken with a tenor of near hatred at a meeting of a council committee when young people were n't even on the agenda . |
| 14 | The words were spoken with a provocative , sidelong glance and Melissa was sure that , just for the hell of it , he was trying to trick her into questioning him over his relationship with Rose . |
| 15 | When the words were spoken for the third time , however , the divorce was irrevocable . |
| 16 | During the discussion , one of the French counsellors proposed that Edward was bound to swear fealty , as well as homage to Philip V. Edward 's own words in reply to what he clearly considered an outrageous suggestion survive : they were spoken without the advice of his council , apparently because they had difficulty in hearing the king 's whispered words and he lost patience . |
| 17 | Words were spoken over the bread and wine . |
| 18 | Often , the words alleged against the accused were spoken in an alehouse , and although alcohol might help loosen one 's inhibitions , we surely have to be sceptical about the depth of commitment of someone whose only Jacobite statement was made in a drunken stupor . |
| 19 | He was speaking of the area around Northfield Lane , north of Oakwood , which was a new settlement concern within the buildings themselves . |
| 20 | As early as 4 January 1936 he was speaking of the political crisis in Spain , predicting a violent confrontation between Popular Front Republicanism and the fascism of Gil Robles . |
| 21 | He was speaking of the unreal world in which some of his friends here seem to live . |
| 22 | She was speaking with the usual tone of insincere humility that she puts on when talking about human qualities that Intelloids lack . |
| 23 | He was speaking for a Tory candidate at the election . |
| 24 | He discovered that night , in what has been called his ‘ Luftwaffe ’ speech , that his was not a voice in the wilderness ; instead , he was speaking for the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 25 | That young man , I am afraid , was speaking for the television-viewing nation . |
| 26 | Mr Mbeki was speaking at a meeting of the South Africa Coalition , a broad grouping of British organisations trying to change British policy over South Africa . |
| 27 | He was speaking at a press conference in Dublin following the decision by the Irish Republic 's Director of Public Prosecutions on Thursday not to bring a case under the 1976 Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act , allowing prosecutions in the Republic for offences allegedly committed in Britain . |
| 28 | The following night , I was speaking at a transport dinner in London and found myself sitting two or three down from a general . |
| 29 | He was speaking at a Reading University dairy information systems ( DAISY ) meeting held for veterinary surgeons . |
| 30 | Rutter , who was speaking at a conference organised by CLEAR , the anti-lead group , went on to question the way committees such as the Lawther committee are set up . |