Example sentences of "speaking for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was speaking for a Tory candidate at the election . |
| 2 | Shlomo Green stopped speaking for a moment . |
| 3 | The critic , no longer speaking for a collectivity , if he/she ever did , can not summon writing forth . |
| 4 | They had stared at each other without speaking for a moment , and then she said , ‘ She deserves a five-shilling Christmas Box . ’ |
| 5 | He is speaking for a Government which has been in power so long that it believes it has a God-given right to govern and denies anyone the right to criticise . |
| 6 | Joan undid the package and looked at its contents without speaking for a moment . |
| 7 | Even though active support for antislavery organisations declined after 1840 , leaders of abolitionist organisations wanted to be recognised as speaking for a reflexive , if latent , antislavery sentiment . |
| 8 | Speaking for a generation of American and British intellectuals , Seldes condemned American movies for their ‘ falseness ’ but saw that it was ‘ the falseness of the McKinley era ’ , an era when ‘ the moral and intellectual tone — had not yet become infected with self-criticism ’ . |
| 9 | This emerged as the consensus view on the juvenile ‘ crime wave ’ of the 1930s , and The Times was also speaking for a wide consensus when it suggested in a lead article that , ‘ It is a good and wise rule that , as far as possible , delinquent children ought to be left at home . ’ |
| 10 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 11 | Paul rode without speaking for a minute or two , listening absently to the strident cries of unseen birds in the tangled roof of the tropical forest . |
| 12 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 13 | As a forensic argument , of course , it has been successful ; but I sometimes fed a residual bitterness that one of these defence counsel , when speaking for a true work of literature , did not build his act on simple defiance . |
| 14 | His hand had dropped to her shoulder and Maria stared at him , immobilised by the fascination he exerted and incapable of speaking for a moment , for all the hot rebellion boiling up in her mind . |
| 15 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |
| 16 | He switched on the radio and they listened without speaking for a while , and Juliet forgot he had n't answered her last statement . |
| 17 | like I 've just said , I 've just been speaking for a whole lesson , my voice is just I 've got to talk to you to explain what we 're doing , so let's quietly |