Example sentences of "[verb] [be] speak [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 2 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 3 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 4 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 5 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 6 | He 's been speaking at a debate on the issue in Strasbourg . |