Example sentences of "spoken [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only words spoken during the brief attack had been : " This is for Joe . " |
| 2 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 heart-throb Luke Perry has spoken for the first time of his nightmare childhood with a drunken father who beat up his mother . |
| 3 | Sheila Silcock has spoken for the first time about her anger when her son Ben was banned from a MIND drop-in centre in Roehampton , south-west London . |
| 4 | He says of Mr Kinnock 's call : ‘ I think it is a huge tribute to those of us who have spoken for the Conservative Party on industrial matters , and have had some personal experience in creating a small business and building it up to some size . |
| 5 | Neither man had spoken for the last few minutes . |
| 6 | When the words were spoken for the third time , however , the divorce was irrevocable . |
| 7 | Although certainly no fan of Guns N'Roses and their offensive lyrics , I am pleased that he has spoken about the still largely-hidden subject of male sexual assault . |
| 8 | For Zarathustra had spoken of the good and evil spirits as twins and thereby implied that they had a common origin . |
| 9 | Mr Baker has spoken of the renewed ‘ need for American leadership ’ . |
| 10 | This was not new — the Dominican John Bromyard in his Summa Predicantium of the fourteenth century had spoken of the mutual hostility of northerners and southerners ( 230 , p.563 ) . |
| 11 | At that time the guardian 's report had spoken of the intense conflict between the mother and the father and the consequent effect upon the children of that conflict . |
| 12 | Sir Charles Coote , over 30 years earlier , had spoken of the large brick houses and well assorted shops , though he clearly regarded Richhill as being more important . |
| 13 | The bible was reinterpreted ; even Christ , she argued , had spoken of the eventual disappearance of the male species . |
| 14 | Having spoken of the vital importance of the navy for a trading power , Jervois turned to the urgent need to protect London from an invader , because London was not like Moscow , which the Russians had abandoned before Napoleon and survived , but like Paris . |
| 15 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) So far , in the characterization of postmodern as postauratic art we have spoken of the cultural text , of its reception and production , in terms of auratic and nonauratic . |
| 17 | I have spoken of the three triggers , those stimuli on which Tod 's body gives judgment . |
| 18 | Then he remembered how Bigwig , after his reconnaissance on the previous day , had spoken of the little white sticks in the grass . |
| 19 | Dr Ward has spoken of the potential effects on children who were unborn at the time of the incident . |
| 20 | I would say however , that it 's not been tested whilst , and whilst there is n't a a clear expression of local preference in terms of the population , I think my elected members who represent that particular area would say that they are expressing local views when they have spoken against the new settlement . |
| 21 | And it was Morse himself who had initiated the arrest of Mr Edward Stratton as he stepped off his plane in New York ; Morse himself who had spoken with the aforementioned Stratton for forty-six minutes , seven seconds — as measured by the recently installed meter in the recently constituted Telephone Room at St Aldate 's . |
| 22 | He had touched on some of the reasons why the United Kingdom had been outsmarted and disadvantaged when he had spoken before the Prime Minister at the meeting of the Economic Planning Council . |
| 23 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 24 | Can the revelation of God in Jesus of which Christians have spoken from the New Testament onwards properly be interpreted simply by saying that Jesus manifests the divine love in the most perfect form attainable on earth ? |
| 25 | Various other places too , so they get a good idea of the English language as it 's spoken in the nineteen nineties . |
| 26 | The case and conversation details will all be completely anonymous , so no one will know who has used the words or whose voice it is on the tape , but together they will provide a permanent record of how the English language was spoken in the nineteen nineties . |
| 27 | The tapes and conversation details will all become completely anonymous no one will know who 's used the words or whose voice are on the tapes together they will provide a permanent record of how the English language is spoken in the nineteen nineties we 'll go down in posterity , eh ? |
| 28 | how they want to see how the English word is spoken in the nineteen nineties . |
| 29 | Yeah but then yo er in a party situation you could probably do that in the first minutes could n't you , I would have thought everybody in th room will have spoken in the first five minutes would n't they ? |
| 30 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |