Example sentences of "have speak [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lecercle of course means death-knell but English has spoken through him , creating a new meaning for the noun that works very well as a metonymy : the bell 's tolling becomes the bell ( it has " sounded " ) much as the water boiling in the kettle has become the kettle as in the expression , " The kettle 's boiling " . |
| 2 | There is his Author 's Note to Victorious Troy to assure us that he has spoken with a boy whose experience had been similar to that of Dick Pomfret and that cases where dismasted sailing ships without officers had been brought to port by boys were not unknown , but we hardly need this assurance in order to believe that Dick , not unaided but with a responsibility beyond his years , did in fact bring the Hurrying Angel home in the end . |
| 3 | ‘ Siban has spoken with me , ’ T'zin said . |
| 4 | For twenty years since , it has spoken with the voice of Africa ‘ for a hate-free , fear-free , greed-free world ’ . |
| 5 | Short though it was and relatively non-technical , it revolutionised the study of language from a scientific point of view ; he has spoken with unrivalled authority on all aspects of grammatical theory . |
| 6 | He has spoken with authority on other transport-related Bills . |
| 7 | Given the number that he drew in the ballot , it was not certain that he would have the chance of a debate on his Bill , but he has had that opportunity and has spoken with his customary mellifluence . |
| 8 | — I have to find a new club as soon as i return from the USA and has spoken with Drillo , a tired-of-Leeds Frank say . |
| 9 | She has spoken at the UN and given lectures abroad in which she has tried to draw attention to Central America 's most beautiful and most tragic republic . |
| 10 | A decision on Cruising Altitude 's participation in the Bula Hurdle will be made after the trainer has spoken to the jockeys at today 's meeting . |
| 11 | A decision on Cruising Altitude 's participation in the Bula Hurdle will be made after the trainer has spoken to the jockeys at today 's meeting . |
| 12 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 13 | Inspector said : ‘ The superintendent has spoken to me — you 're the best life-saver in the division . |
| 14 | No big Japanese corporation — he has spoken to Tokyo-based lawyers and former Wallaby Ian Williams at length — or Australian company giant has stepped forward to sponsor the team . |
| 15 | Barry Hearn , who has guided the Norwich-based prospect since 1989 , admitted he has spoken to Bowe 's manager , Rock Newman . |
| 16 | Keegan has spoken to City boss Denis Smith and said : ‘ His hands are tied at the moment . |
| 17 | ‘ I know Duff has spoken to Lennox 's American promoter Dan Duva , but he has not spoken to anybody directly involved with Lennox 's career in Britain . ’ |
| 18 | And other players will be added to the list after Keegan has spoken to them over the weekend . |
| 19 | Nobody has spoken to him in the way that you have , not for more than a year … |
| 20 | Ryder has spoken to NME about the pressures of touring the last LP , ‘ Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches ’ , recording their new LP ‘ … |
| 21 | THE Rev. Mrs Kathleen Richardson , first woman President of the Methodist Conference , has spoken to ‘ Leeds Catholic Voice ’ following her audience with Pope John Paul II . |
| 22 | It is an a matter where Miss has spoken to me about this particular case and it |
| 23 | Since then Jim who manages the project engineer course , has spoken to Trevor , and also since then we 've had er contact from Regional Railways our major client , who have actually said that they require us to have this expertise . |
| 24 | During the last six months , the Guild has spoken to a number of representatives of caterers , dieticians , nurses , doctors and , in particular , the Patients ' Association and the College of Health , and discovered that the quality of hospital food is highly variable . |
| 25 | Even though he has spoken to you of vengeance ? ’ |
| 26 | Anyone who has spoken to them recently knows of the problems with which they have had to cope . |
| 27 | And Im sure Wilko has spoken to frank about the situation . |
| 28 | Mrs Brown has spoken to her MP the Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 29 | Reports from the country last night said that Shachar has spoken to Souness , and had been given permission to speak to the player . |
| 30 | And he did say to me well he has spoken to me about it , he did say answering the telephone . |