Example sentences of "speak a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a mental , could n't even speak a threepenny bit . ’ |
| 2 | Can you speak a little bit louder please . |
| 3 | But she could speak a little Russian . |
| 4 | Knowing that he would speak a little pidgin English , I said to him , ‘ You trust me , yes ? |
| 5 | Why , why you know , I 've even heard him speak a little French ? ’ |
| 6 | She did n't speak a single word to me all the way back here , and she 's in foul form downstairs at the moment . |
| 7 | Can you speak a foreign language ? |
| 8 | This hostility at best would be similar to blaming someone because he or she does not speak a foreign language . |
| 9 | True , even with those drawbacks , NATO functions well , but it has had the advantage of 350,000 American service men and ourselves , all of whom speak a common language . |
| 10 | They speak a Polabian dialect of the Pomeranian group of Slav languages , closely related to Wendish ( Sorbian ) , Serbian and the vanished Slovincian dialect , all of which are/were related to Polish . |
| 11 | While still learning , to swim or drive a car or speak a foreign language , he does have to think out what to do next , but it is when he comes to trust his own reflexes that he will have mastered the skill . |
| 12 | The people up there speak a Tibetan dialect , and in the high pastures along the border the nomads still live in their black tents with their yaks . |
| 13 | ‘ I was always looking to join a foreign company because I speak a little bit of English and wanted to practise it . |
| 14 | Most people speak a little English . |
| 15 | ‘ I speak a little French , ’ Blunt offered . |
| 16 | And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk . |
| 17 | Errors in speaking a new language tend to be systematic . |
| 18 | ‘ Correctness ’ , even in the matter of speaking a native language , was similarly determined . |
| 19 | Now , however , he and his western friends are speaking a different language . |
| 20 | Add positive three , see this thing of using the same symbol for add and for positive is very confusing , very confusing , it 's as though , you know you 're speaking a different language where one word has about fifteen different meanings and you ca n't understand what they 're talking about most of the time . |
| 21 | In Cornwall almost all were Bretons , who bore a close affinity to the indigenous population , speaking a related tongue , and as yet imperfectly assimilated into the kingdom of France : ‘ ther use many Britons with smaul shippes to resorte to Padestowe with commodities of their countery and to by fische , ’ Leland observed , adding that the port was also full of Irishmen , Most , however , must have come to work , especially if native labour was in short supply in the parts where they were most numerous . |
| 22 | There was evidentially speaking a head-on collision between the appellant and the principal prosecution witness . |
| 23 | It was not as though other people were speaking a foreign language , but rather as though they were using the English language as the basis of a code to which I had somehow lost the key . |
| 24 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 25 | When you 're 15 and working in an office for the first time it is a new world and a big challenge — especially when all your colleagues are speaking a foreign language . |
| 26 | They were speaking a foreign language , or so it sounded to him — quite different from the priest 's — and many were groaning pitifully , or struggling painfully to get to their feet . |
| 27 | Genesis has spoken a great deal about blessing . |
| 28 | ‘ Senior officials in the Executive have spoken a great deal and written much about delivering a quality service . |
| 29 | His father had not spoken a single word to him , just followed him around the house , not a solitary word . |
| 30 | But she 'd spoken a different baby language from her husband , the Colonel : a kind of upper-class malay with thirty different words for ‘ you ’ and ‘ me ’ , depending on the grade of the person speaking and their mutual relationship , that kind of thing . |