Example sentences of "[was/were] speak in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cameron was speaking in a low-pitched , pressing whisper . |
| 3 | Donald McLaggan was speaking in a loud high voice , for their own benefit , they guessed . |
| 4 | ‘ Curse you ! ’ she began , but she was speaking in a harsh man 's voice . |
| 5 | Well , we had n't been wondering at all , we 'd come straight along the corridor , but of course he was speaking in a wider sense . |
| 6 | Buchanan was speaking in a monotone . |
| 7 | At an age when I was having qualms over the philosophy of M. Bergson , he was speaking in a factory yard of the necessity to go on strike . |
| 8 | He was speaking in the Punch Tavern , the only pub to have a national magazine named after it . |
| 9 | It was recorded that when she was speaking in the market-place she was audible by the Senate House . |
| 10 | John Major was speaking in the Commons in the wake of Monday 's boycott , which left the Government 's English reading and writing test for 14-year-olds in tatters . |
| 11 | But , as David Beattie , Grampian 's assistant chief constable was speaking in the primary school at New Deer , Aberdeenshire , thieves were proceeding in a westerly direction towards the locus of Newlands Garage , just 300 yards away . |
| 12 | Sheriff Robin McEwan , QC , was speaking in the closing stages of a three-day fatal accident inquiry at Ayr Sheriff Court . |
| 13 | Mhm , there 's there all Gaelic , There with Gaelic was spoken in the Glen Ayloch many years , er even though the lower end of the glen did n't . |
| 14 | The case and conversation details will all be completely anonymous , so no one will know who has used the words or whose voice it is on the tape , but together they will provide a permanent record of how the English language was spoken in the nineteen nineties . |