Example sentences of "he speak [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably does nt even let him speak to the staff there . |
| 2 | Once I heard him speak at a church service in Morton , and although he was an excellent speaker , there was a certain bitterness and disappointment in his words . |
| 3 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 4 | Mind you , he shits himself does n't he , cos Johnny Giles was it 's controversial cos they would n't let him speak at the end of the game . |
| 5 | The immediate result was the short love poem which he later revised and expanded as ‘ The Eolian Harp ’ , but which even in its original form showed him speaking in a manner now distinctively his own . |
| 6 | ‘ You were a soldier , ’ I said , not as a question , but as a straight assertion of fact , for almost everything about him spoke of the military . |
| 7 | The letters appointing him spoke of the ‘ dissensions recently arisen ’ in the duchy of Aquitaine where he was to act ‘ to pacify the said land ’ ( circa stabilimentum terre predicte ) , thereby incurring additional expenses ( which were to be recom-pensed ) at the Paris parlement and in the duchy itself . |
| 8 | He rang the bell and when he was greeted by a rather surly butler he enquired , very politely , if it might be possible for him to speak with the Signora Calvino on a matter of the utmost urgency . |
| 9 | ‘ Then will you men tell him to speak to the farm manager ? ’ said Bathsheba in a businesslike way , as she rode off . |
| 10 | And a section of the crowd followed him everywhere , trying to persuade him to speak to the Angel — to intercede with the Miracle-Worker on their behalf . |
| 11 | He sometimes borders on triteness , but more often his straightforward approach allows him to speak in an authentic language which is easily understood and brilliantly evocative . |
| 12 | Did he speak of a recent row or of serious friction with anyone ? ’ |
| 13 | He makes a great deal , as we have seen , of the gift of the Holy Spirit to Jesus : but only once in the ministry does he speak of the disciples having the Spirit . |
| 14 | It is possible to dial a number and , within seconds , to he speaking to a business acquaintance or friend in Saudi Arabia , the USA or Australia , to name just three of the many countries it is possible to dial direct . |
| 15 | He speaks as a Conservative representing a coal mining area and he truly speaks up for the industry . |
| 16 | He speaks about the archaeological finds that have been made in Cyprus 's mines — the reed ore baskets , the wooden winches and woven ropes , the skeletons cramped in galleries less than one metre high . |
| 17 | As an example , he speaks about the reproduction of the relations of production — itself a precondition of the survival of the production process . |
| 18 | There was an interesting article in The Sunday Telegraph on 1 December by Mr. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard , in which he speaks about the devastation in Vukovar and what has been happening in Croatia . |
| 19 | The inference in his letter is that he speaks for the Council of the National Union of which he is chairman . |
| 20 | Every time he speaks to a colleague , a team-member or a customer , he is seizing an investment opportunity . |
| 21 | He speaks to no one , and no one addresses him until the employee at the counter asks if she can help at all . |
| 22 | ‘ He speaks to the others as little as possible . |
| 23 | He exaggerates when he speaks of a ‘ deafening silence , from historians on the land question , but he makes a strong case for placing the land issue near the centre of any sound historical analysis of the period . |
| 24 | This piece of advice might suggest that his grasp of the ‘ new psychology ’ was still at the rudimentary stage , since he speaks of a neurosis as if it were something avoidable . |
| 25 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 26 | He speaks of a battle against the Germans . |
| 27 | He has taken to disrupting romantic trysts in the village by pouring glue into the hair of those girls who step out with soldiers ; his motive being to encourage the largest possible number of servicemen to attend his lectures , where he speaks of the mysteries of the countryside . |
| 28 | He speaks of the Logos made flesh . |
| 29 | Roger Duvoisin ( 1965 , p.25 ) extends this idea when he speaks of the well-designed page . |
| 30 | The question that arises here is whether Gandhi is referring to an ‘ essence ’ or ‘ primordial element ’ when he speaks of the heart of one religion being identical with the heart of another religion . |