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Example sentences of "speak [prep] a " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Hush now , speak through a flower .
2	Jenny could n't speak for a moment .
3	Roger Kenyon started slightly , but he did not speak for a moment .
4	This was something so endearing I could n't speak for a moment .
5	James Ross did not speak for a minute .
6	In order not to dull your pleasure I intend to only speak for a few minutes in case we all get snowed in/melt away in the heat !
7	, can I just speak for a minute .
8	They did n't speak for a very long time .
9	‘ Was n't that terrific ? ’ she turned to Ven to eagerly exclaim — and felt her heart begin to race yet again when , his expression somehow gentle , he did not speak for a moment but just stood and looked at her .
10	I speak as a father .
11	Hughes cites Speak as a model for those yet to get their chance in the game , insisting : ‘ The rewards he is getting now are richly deserved .
12	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 .
13	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 .
14	I speak as a forty-three-year-old .
15	One welcomes the provision that housing associations can make , and I speak as a member of the management committee of a housing association .
16	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 .
17	Ironic , then , is Wilekin 's immediate comment : ( " Indeed , lady , you speak as a gracious person " )
18	It is mind-blowing , and I speak as an expert .
19	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 .
20	They have er thirty minutes each , er twenty minutes A at least ten minutes have to be given over to you for questions , so they speak for a maximum of twenty minutes .
21	‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time .
22	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 .
23	No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one .
24	The normal tendency of such a ‘ preparation ’ ( biologists ' speak for an animal to which they have done something nasty , akin to the use of the term ‘ sacrifice , that I commented on earlier ) is to extend its legs into the liquid bath .
25	We have listened to the Secretary of State speak for an hour and a minute , and during those 61 minutes never once did he utter a word about the central feature of the Bill — the doctrinaire destruction of Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and the privatisation of the national and local schools inspectorates .
26	Does their theology then really speak about a real God , or merely about man himself ?
27	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 .
28	All four books speak of a ‘ someone other ’ .
29	What I can say , however , is that the constructivist position allows a distinctive analysis of the ‘ mental ’ when we speak of a ‘ mental representation of a green patch ’ : it helps us to understand the difference between mental representations and the non-mental variety ( a photograph for example ) .
30	Further , it is noticeable that those who speak of a ‘ suffering God ’ tend to employ rather different language when they speak of ‘ God in action ’ , as the report of the Doctrine Commission illustrates .