Example sentences of "speak to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elderly woman opened it , but she must have thought I was a thief or a beggar , because she refused to let me speak to the young ladies . |
| 2 | He wondered if he should speak to the other man but , not knowing the system 's etiquette , he stayed silent . |
| 3 | and you can speak to the other people , and then you switch back |
| 4 | ‘ God in heaven , ’ she said , for Mrs Hollidaye had explained how you could speak to the good Lord and sometimes the good Lord spoke back . |
| 5 | But they would n't take that trouble , but they 'd always speak to the uniform policemen , if or if they heard anyone smashing glass , but they would n't go out of their way . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll just speak to the bigger ones , then I 'll be back to ring the doctor . ’ |
| 7 | What I desired was a grand conception , one which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature . |
| 8 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 9 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 10 | The process that we 'll go through is firstly I , now the Council 's made this decision , will speak to the three Social Services Committee spokespersons about which home looks the most logical , and obviously I know which that one is in my own mind . |
| 11 | It clearly exposes the weakness that is at the heart of Labour 's inspection policy , and demonstrates that the hon. Member for Blackburn does not speak to the hon. Member for Leeds , Central . |
| 12 | Ulster Unionist secretary Jim Wilson said he would speak to the American Consulate about the purpose of the group 's meeting with Sinn Fein and then report back to senior party members . |
| 13 | Speak to the entire galaxy and wait for replies . |
| 14 | Finally , the shaman ( priest ) of the tribe decided to go alone to the top of the hill and speak to the Great Spirits . |
| 15 | Psychologists speak to the whole family at length before assessing the child . |
| 16 | The last task of the day for the humanitarian branch is to visit the village of Mammari and speak to the local farmers . |
| 17 | Go and speak to the old man of the woods . |
| 18 | Here , inconsistency refers to conflicts within the evidence of one or more witnesses who speak to the same version of the facts . |
| 19 | Though they crunch the same numbers and speak to the same executives , the agencies ' analysts have reached markedly different conclusions . |
| 20 | Whether or not , as Heath reported , the Vietnamese were turning increasingly to the US for advice and assistance in a situation where the Governor of Annam was n't speaking to the Prime Minister — who was being kept on . |
| 21 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
| 22 | Speaking to the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram on Nov. 12 , President Mohammed Siyad Barre said that " all political currents will be able to express themselves and share power " . |
| 23 | Speaking to the Central Committee in October , he deplored any possible ‘ Lebanonisation ’ of the Soviet Union , with all the consequences that would follow . |
| 24 | Gorbachev , speaking to the Central Committee in December 1989 , professed to welcome the ‘ positive changes ’ that had taken place in Eastern Europe , but it was difficult to disguise the fact that the sphere of influence acquired at great cost during World War II had disappeared , probably for good . |
| 25 | Speaking to the Central Committee later in the year , Medvedev accepted that the process of change in which they were engaged might be complex and even alarming . |
| 26 | Speaking to the Central Committee in January 1991 , Polozkov attached the ‘ so-called democrats ’ who had undermined perestroika and whose real aim was to re-establish the ‘ dictatorship of private capital ’ . |
| 27 | Speaking to the European Parliament on Oct. 23 Jacques Delors , President of the European Commission , maintained : " The crux of the reforms must be the concept of a common action , resting on the need for a common will to defend the central interests which the member states share … |
| 28 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't realize it was the ‘ Queen of Casterbridge market ’ I was speaking to the other night . |
| 30 | And er an in-depth study would involve speaking to the relevant project engineers obviously . |