Example sentences of "speak [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durham Euro-MP Stephen Hughes will speak to first year pupils at St John 's Comprehensive School later this month and will also speak to students at the town 's Sixth Form Centre . |
| 2 | But when he did speak at last , his words were a chilling disappointment . |
| 3 | Thus , whereas in a face-to-face meeting I can say I 'm Joe Bloggs , on the telephone I must say This is Joe Bloggs or Joe Bloggs is speaking with third person verb agreement ( but see Schegloff , 1979a ) ; in contrast in Tamil we would have to say on the telephone the equivalent of Joe Bloggs am speaking , with first person verb agreement . |
| 4 | Or there 's the celebrated case of one of our members speaking in last year 's debate on the maternity leave directive . |
| 5 | According to Anthony Preece , director of operations at investment group Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers , speaking at last week 's conference , there were at least 13 different design concepts for the future Taurus system under discussion in the City as of March this year . |
| 6 | ‘ We decided to call it System 10 because we wanted an order of magnitude improvement , ’ claims Stu Schuster , vice president of marketing , speaking at last week 's announcement of the availability of seven components of the 11 System 10 database server family products ( more details of the tools components will come later in the year ) . |
| 7 | ‘ We decided to call it System 10 because we wanted an order of magnitude improvement , ’ claims Stu Schuster , vice-president of marketing , speaking at last week 's announcement of the availability of seven components of the 11 System 10 database server family products ( more details of the tools components will come later in the year ) . |
| 8 | Berowne had spoken at first spasmodically , then easily , and finally intimately . |
| 9 | Miriam could hardly believe that he had spoken at last . |
| 10 | CHILE 'S ONLY WOMAN MAYOR SPEAKS OF LAST CHANCE TO STOP ‘ EYES AND EARS ’ OF DICTATORSHIP |
| 11 | As the mysterious man following Blackeyes , Nigel Planer speaks at last , though he has damn all to say . |
| 12 | I take issue with some Conservative Members who spoke of second pensions solving the problems of the elderly in our communities . |
| 13 | He spoke to sixth formers at St John 's RC Comprehensive about European politics and took part in a question and answer session with 40 pupils . |
| 14 | When Charles spoke at last , the words came dreamily . |
| 15 | Johannsen spoke at last . |
| 16 | He turned as if to walk away , but Alexei spoke at last . |
| 17 | Maman spoke at last : " Have you fed your bantams yet ? |
| 18 | He sighed heavily , and Belinda was about to ask what was wrong — after all , they were still friends , in spite of what she had seen in the garden tonight , and her revelation of feeling should n't dictate this new reticence — when he spoke at last . |
| 19 | Her mother spoke at last . |
| 20 | Now is , is there anyone else you will need to speak to first before you can erm actually go ahead with this ? |
| 21 | No problem here — Labour was sure of the answer , and Front Bench spokesperson Dr John Cunningham was so pleased and relieved that this time Labour was going to get it right , that when he rose to speak on 8th December in Standing Committee A , he repeated Labour 's position several times . |
| 22 | I know that he wants to speak on Third Reading and no doubt he will make his point later . |
| 23 | From some depth of courage and purpose she who had been silent so long was finding the will to speak at last . |