Example sentences of "spoke about [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 2 | She did n't envy anyone really ; but it would have been nice to have had a father , or at least to be able to remember him , and no matter how often her mother spoke about him and told her what he was like , there was a sort of emptiness inside her , and she was beginning to think there always would be There was a day in September which her mother kept special to remember her father . |
| 3 | I spoke about him , not to him . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I could tell that from the warm way Joanie Sims and Hattie Jacques spoke about him . ’ |
| 5 | Then you , the way they spoke about him they thought he were brilliant ! |
| 6 | ‘ Simon reckoned that after Sintra if he spoke about me you 'd get tense — though you did n't realise he noticed . |
| 7 | We never changed them very much , because we knew the path we were on , but we consciously spoke about them . |
| 8 | Lee spoke about them , Miss Berry , the professor … many people . ’ |
| 9 | You spoke about them earlier |
| 10 | He spoke about her again and again as we walked home . |
| 11 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 12 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 13 | ‘ A few years ago few officials spoke about it , ’ says Professor Lutz Krauskopf , the president of the Swiss committee on special legislation on money laundering . |
| 14 | ‘ It would have been a crime completely out of character , ’ he told me , ‘ and it was the way he spoke about it that convinced me . ’ |
| 15 | She spoke about it at length and Richard asked intelligent questions . |
| 16 | She spoke about it to Helen , who said gently , ‘ It 's a shame , Anne . |
| 17 | Do you mean Mum spoke about it to you and Joe and Sarah heard her ? ’ |
| 18 | When , when this was first suggested erm was couple of questions came back and Selwyn and I spoke about it , was the fact that w are there or would there be any recriminations for people who kind of belong to any Neighbourhood Watch , like a brick through a window or , or , because anybody who saw erm that programme on television |
| 19 | " Or if you spoke about it now in English . " |
| 20 | Erm you spoke about the second appointment and say you were coming back you did n't actually arrange it but you spoke about it |
| 21 | When I spoke about it th the barman rushed across and put the fans |
| 22 | But if er if folks spoke about you you know they would they would say you were a singer ? |
| 23 | And when my father spoke about He got a holi they got a holiday from the school , that day , because the teacher came to see this old body going out the glen that 's body and they walked out , so it 'd be two miles out and then maybe another three miles up the er Glen Shee kirk here , so they had a good bit to carry him . |