Example sentences of "who could speak " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange not being able to communicate but someone who could speak English was always on hand to translate and often all I needed were those wonderful smiles and greetings from people . |
| 2 | A Lurgan solicitor who could speak menacing words in a slow quiet voice , he had come close to the leadership of the Unionist Party , had held cabinet office and retained good links with the paramilitaries and the workers ' leaders who had planned and organized the 1974 strike . |
| 3 | He suggested an hotel nearby where his wife , who could speak German , worked as a receptionist . |
| 4 | The Necromundans glanced curiously at that blind , fey figure of a man who was as alabastine as the idol of the primarch — his flesh almost translucent — yet who could speak with his mind from star to star , and could even report directly to the Emperor , should a sufficiently momentous situation arise . |
| 5 | The rump of hereditary and life peers may , in a transitional stage , elect a small number from among themselves — perhaps 50 — who could speak in the chamber and serve on committees , but not vote . |
| 6 | The Ashes summer of ‘ 89 saw almost everyone who could speak English getting a game . |
| 7 | Legend says it was here that Edward I showed his baby son to the Welsh as ‘ the native-born prince who could speak no English ’ . |
| 8 | Kingsley adjusted his dogcollar meaningfully and replied that he was an expert on the English language who could speak authoritatively not only on the matter of ‘ bollocks ’ but also on ‘ shit ’ or ‘ fuck ’ if required . |
| 9 | The eight Bridgewater Treatises were each written by an expert who could speak with authority on the evidence of design to be seen in his particular area . |
| 10 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 11 | But those who could speak English spoke no Welsh aloud in Shrewsbury in those days , for feeling was running all the higher because the two races bred and mingled so closely here , and it was well to be known as a loyal king 's man , and indulge other sympathies only in low voices round the hearth , or better still , in silence within the heart . |
| 12 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |
| 13 | You 'd think they 'd have the wit to send someone who could speak English . |