Example sentences of "had make a speech " in BNC.

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1 Zuwaya heard on the BBC Arabic Service that President Sadat had made a speech about Libya : they switched on to Radio Cairo in the evening to listen to it .
2 Somebody had made a speech .
3 Churchill had made a speech after the surrender of France in which he said , ‘ We shall fight them in the fields and in the streets , we shall fight them in the hills , we shall never surrender ’ , and his belligerence was echoed everywhere , not least in the factory where Anne worked .
4 Shortly before the vote Saddam Hussein had made a speech broadcast by Baghdad radio , asserting that if war came Iraq would fight with a heroism which would fill every Arab and Moslem with pride , and , more specifically , that Iraq had the means to detect US stealth bombers and shoot them down like any other enemy aircraft .
5 After a frightful red-headed youth with a beard had taken Hyacinth away to some dance , the party had broken up , though not before Grunte , who was tight , had made a speech about ‘ many years of close friendship … a happy ship … a united party ’ and much more of the same .
6 I had to make a speech which a priest translated into Sesotho .
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