Example sentences of "[vb past] spoken of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not new — the Dominican John Bromyard in his Summa Predicantium of the fourteenth century had spoken of the mutual hostility of northerners and southerners ( 230 , p.563 ) . |
| 2 | At that time the guardian 's report had spoken of the intense conflict between the mother and the father and the consequent effect upon the children of that conflict . |
| 3 | The bible was reinterpreted ; even Christ , she argued , had spoken of the eventual disappearance of the male species . |
| 4 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 5 | Sir Charles Coote , over 30 years earlier , had spoken of the large brick houses and well assorted shops , though he clearly regarded Richhill as being more important . |