Example sentences of "i speak [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As a Scot , I speak about shared sovereignty with great feeling .
2 Is she also aware of the fact that the National Sounds Archive now housed in Exhibition Road in South Kensington , ought really to be next door to the Music Library and it has always been the ambition of the Library to put it there and that furthermore , and here I speak from great knowledge because I negotiated the arrangement , if that site at Exhibition Road for the National Sounds Archive Library is sold , that money can only be used under the term of that agreement to provide similar accommodation elsewhere .
3 I speak from embarrassed experience , having embarked under the nom-de-plume of Evelyn Hervey on just such a foolish enterprise , though I hope frenzied ingenuity will eventually wriggle me out of too much trouble .
4 I speak from hard experience at the workface .
5 I speak from bitter experience as I have worked as a diver for just five days since qualifying as a part 111 diver in December 1990 , and the situation is not that much better , as far as I can tell , for part 1s .
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