Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] spoke [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My interest at the time was in describing the close bonds of friendship women often from , an intimacy rarely found amongst men and about which I spoke on Women 's Hour . |
| 2 | In an address to the nation on July 25 , during which he spoke of the need for a " fresh start " after the upheavals of June [ see p. 37523 ] , President Kenneth Kaunda pardoned Lt. Mwamba Luchembe and his colleagues who were behind the June 30 announcement of an Army takeover , and announced the release of all other political prisoners . |
| 3 | Mr David Coleridge 's Chairmanship of Lloyds came under criticism from a group of irate Tory MP 's , Michael Jackson followed his trip to Africa with a stay in London during which he spoke with his fans via messages ( eg ‘ I love England with all my heart ’ ) written on pillowcases , dropped from a 14th floor window , and the British Winter Olympic Team returned gongless from Albertville . |
| 4 | When Green and his wife went on holiday to Corfu , he had sent Miss Warburton two love letters , in one of which he spoke about his ‘ current other half ’ . |
| 5 | He asks : " what se hym ne here hym ? " [ : hinders ] ( ibid ) The new " gamen " and " trauaile " of which he spoke in chapter forty is to find out . |
| 6 | Everything that the right hon. Gentleman proposes would lead to the perpetual recession of which I spoke on Tuesday . |
| 7 | ‘ Master Parry , I have so much confidence in the good offices of your daughter that I have brought with me the letter of which I spoke to her . |
| 8 | However , he was somewhat startled by the sober determination with which she spoke of leaving home . |
| 9 | Of course , I had heard these same sentiments expressed by his lordship on many occasions before , but such was the depth of conviction with which he spoke in this august setting that I could not help but be moved afresh . |
| 10 | One day , as he was pushing his tinker 's cart round Bedford , he came across three or four poor women , sitting at a door in the sun , and was struck by the confident way in which they spoke of their salvation . |
| 11 | Many were amazed that the war against Bolshevism was already more or less over , but no less a person than the Führer himself had again lent support to such notions with his proclamation to the soldiers on the eastern Front on 2 October , in which he spoke of ‘ the last mighty blow to smash the enemy even before the onset of winter ’ . |
| 12 | I had one letter , written after he got back to Darvel , in which he spoke of how our parting had affected him : ‘ You seemed so big-eyed and pathetic when I left , that it fairly caught my heart ; that exit was the most difficult I 've ever made in my life . ’ |
| 13 | The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw 's introductory statement in which he spoke of ( a ) the need to ‘ remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets ’ , and ( b ) the urgency of developing ‘ policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends ’ ( Hansard , vol. 8 , 16 July 1981 : col. 1405 ) . |
| 14 | Socialist Euro MPs jeered and heckled him during his key speech to the European Parliament , in which he spoke of Britain 's ‘ triumphs ’ of the Edinburgh Summit . |
| 15 | That event had the imprimatur of no less a figure than Louis Aragon , one of the founders of the movement , who wrote an uncompromisingly surrealist preface for it in which he spoke of the rock candy sticks which ‘ emerge from the earth at every seismic shock ’ and toasted Félix Faure , the President of the French Republic who died , in 1899 , in the arms of a courtesan . |
| 16 | Enraged that he should take it on himself to tell her the state of her own business , and bristling at the manner in which he spoke of her precious son , Esther said sharply , ‘ Whatever is or is not in the coffers is nothing whatsoever to do with you ! |
| 17 | That evening Carter gave a warm toast to the Shah in which he spoke of the great importance of Iran 's relationship to the United States . |
| 18 | Whatsoever of thought or feeling came to him from England , or by way of English culture , his mind stood armed against in obedience to a password , and of the world that lay beyond England he knew only the Foreign Legion of France in which he spoke of serving . |
| 19 | And now , here she was , wherever here was , with a woman , short and comfortable , who possessed a kind face , and a man who was none of these things , judging by the coolly impersonal way in which he spoke to her . |
| 20 | Dr Neil was so shocked — both by Blaine 's manner and the cavalier fashion in which he spoke to them both , that his normal composure left him , and he could think of no more to say than , ‘ You know Miss McAllister ? ’ and his voice was incredulous , so incredulous that Havvie 's eyebrows shot up in gleeful , unholy delight at the prospect of yet another opportunity to humiliate the girl who had jilted him . |
| 21 | ERNEST Saunders , jailed for his part in the Guinness affair , has given a lecture to business students in which he spoke about ethics in management . |
| 22 | He had finally chosen the version in which he spoke in a falsetto down a cardboard tube , with his nostrils clamped together . |