Example sentences of "speak [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Africa joined up with Asia via Arabia and became part of the huge continent that we now speak of as the Old World . |
| 2 | Who did you speak to at the Palace ? |
| 3 | ‘ Who did Leila speak to at the New Roses party ? ’ |
| 4 | she does n't spell her name like that and I 'll speak to within the next couple of working days |
| 5 | Erm , I think I 'll leave it at that for this moment in time and er if I may speak at at the end . |
| 6 | One is mounted on top of the power supply , and two are spoken for by the floppy and hard disk drives , so you 'd be in trouble if you wanted to fit more than two peripherals . |
| 7 | He is commonly spoken of as the keeper of the King 's conscience . |
| 8 | But last week it was spoken of at the Inn . ’ |
| 9 | The SCDC Arts in Schools Project , although spoken of by the one LEA in the sample which was a participant in terms of gratitude for the support the Project 's staff had given , was criticized by staff in the other LEAs for the limited help it had given to them . |
| 10 | A split appears to be spoken of in the conversation from which I have just quoted : formed by the past , he is also deformed by it . |
| 11 | The British reader , who is likely to have been spared certain of the varieties of suffering which are spoken of in the writings of Kundera and Klima , where a joke , or no joke , or nothing whatever , can sequester you for years from the people you grew up with , is in a position , for all that , to know what Sabina means here . |
| 12 | The New Testament , despite its talk of God condemning the wicked to an eternity of weeping and gnashing of teeth in the fires of hell ( a level of violence , as one commentator has put it , surpassing anything spoken of in the Old Testament ) , has yet more challenges to offer , and not just in the Passion narratives . |
| 13 | Her concerns were here , in front of her , concerns that were domestic and intimate and not to be spoken of in the same breath as supposedly greater events . |
| 14 | Its name is derived from a remarkable Chase , the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem , which monuments do now exist as I have there described them . |
| 15 | Is the kingdom of God spoken of in the New Testament simply ‘ the moral organisation of the human race ’ , or does that conception owe more than the Liberals themselves realised to their own enlightened and optimistic view of the development of Protestant culture in their own day ? |
| 16 | With seamers John Maguire and Craig Wilkinson following Simpson out of Grace Road , Alan Mullally is the only Australian left on the staff , and Mr Turner revealed : ‘ there is now a strong hope that his fitness problems can be spoken of in the past tense . |
| 17 | If the court on review believes that the requisite situation spoken of in the statute did not exist then the conclusion reached by the tribunal will be a nullity . |
| 18 | ‘ The Twenty-fourth Imam , ’ he said , ‘ has often been spoken of among the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 19 | It was the bald man I had spoken with on the video trunk-call screen . |
| 20 | EVERYONE I have spoken to about the New Zealand tour of Wales agrees that , if they are going to be beaten by anyone , it will be by one of the clubs rather than by the national side . |
| 21 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 22 | Lord Harris agreed to be chairman and a group of academics , about half of those whom Robertson had approached , turned up to an informal first meeting at Dean 's Yard , Westminster ( ‘ Suddenly all these distinguished geezers I had spoken to on the phone were there in this room ’ ) . |
| 23 | On August 2nd , 1951 , 48-year old Mrs Mabel Tattershaw was spoken to by the man next to her in the Roxy Cinema , Nottingham . |
| 24 | I was also spoken to by the Chief Whip who reiterated that the majority of the party were for Alec . |
| 25 | He was first spoken to by the police in November before being charged with attempted murder on February 28 . |
| 26 | To carry out assessments of training needs was an exacting task and the majority of Group Organisers spoken to in the study felt unable or unwilling to undertake it . |
| 27 | Nobody I had spoken to in the train , or on the ferry , had ever visited Moila , which must support , so I was told by one slow-spoken Highlander , no more than thirty folk in all . |
| 28 | A most remarkable document , which was produced and spoken to before the select committee in London . |
| 29 | The Conservatives in Blackpool : Lawson speaks from beyond the graveyard |
| 30 | To be fair , the same company does publish David Widgery 's remarkable chronicle of a GP 's East End , Some Lives ! : almost unique in that it speaks from within the culture described , rather than taking day-trips to deprivation . |