Example sentences of "[pers pn] speak [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 2 | If there is n't , I speak to the manager and arrange a meeting . |
| 3 | I speak to the reporter who wrote the piece . |
| 4 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 5 | ( When I speak of the value of the whole , I mean what Moore calls its value on the whole , that is the values of its parts plus its value as a whole . ) |
| 6 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 7 | For when I speak of the community being faithful to its own principles I do not mean its conventional or popular morality , the beliefs and convictions of most citizens . |
| 8 | Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels , as I often do , Harry still goes and does whatever he wants . |
| 9 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 10 | ‘ As your commanding officer , I 'm the senior member of the Board and I speak for the others . |
| 11 | ‘ And , ’ continued the badger ceremoniously , ‘ I am sure I speak for the entire population in wishing you all the very best in driving away this menace in our midst . |
| 12 | I speak for the first time . |
| 13 | I think I speak for the vast majority of the environmental health committee when I say that the abatement and noise pollution has been one of our ongoing major concerns in things for the last twelve months . |
| 14 | I speak as a father . |
| 15 | There 's nothing more soul- destroying ( and I speak as a seasoned dieter here ! ) than those inflexible diet regimes : no meals out , no dinner parties , no treats . |
| 16 | But then I do n't hold with the precept de mortuis nil nisi bonum ( I speak as a doctor , after all ) ; and it 's hard to underestimate the irritation when a critic points out something like that to you . |
| 17 | I speak as a forty-three-year-old . |
| 18 | One welcomes the provision that housing associations can make , and I speak as a member of the management committee of a housing association . |
| 19 | I speak as a representative who came into the House as a result of the murder just 10 years ago of the then Member for Belfast , South . |
| 20 | It is mind-blowing , and I speak as an expert . |
| 21 | I speak as an hon. Member who has served time on four such Bills during the four years that I have been in the House — the City of London ( Various Powers ) Bill , the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill , and the London Underground Bills Nos. 1 and 2 . |
| 22 | I speak into the entry system . |
| 23 | The hay rick well it was That was what I speak about a a a cole Tramp cole where the hay r Hay was the tramp cole . |
| 24 | I speak in a drone . |
| 25 | ‘ I speak in no spirit of complaint , Carrington , ’ Hawkins said , ‘ but you 're not very encouraging . |
| 26 | That meant in practise , I speak in the primary sector I think there 's five hundred and forty six thousand of the delegated budget taken out , and I will have to — if you will allow me a minute |
| 27 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 28 | I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want . |
| 29 | A common denominator both of these critiques and of positivism and natural law theories , is that most of them speak about the law — even if this is seen to have many facets . |
| 30 | So instead of ringing each other up on the telephone we spoke to each other over the C.B. as you do n't have to pay each time you speak as when you speak on a C.B. your words travel with Radio waves and when you speak on a telephone your words travel down wires . |