Example sentences of "[pers pn] spoke [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spoke to a charming fellow , name of Sebastian Grantham … ’ |
| 2 | Some years ago when I was on the edge of Christianity , I spoke to a large gathering about the problematic nature of the Godhead for women . |
| 3 | I spoke to a middle-aged woman in Sunderland who moved into her council house when it was new thirty years ago . |
| 4 | In a letter to my wife I spoke of a whole-day conference about the future of Judson College , in which I pressed the representatives of the American Baptist Mission to make Judson into an ecumenical college and to be ready to be integrated into a University unitary system . |
| 5 | I spoke like a small child . |
| 6 | I spoke in a childish voice , like a little girl begging for sweets . |
| 7 | This time she spoke of a different ‘ they ’ . |
| 8 | She spoke with a new intensity . |
| 9 | She spoke with a Brummy whine and had roots that were invariably darker than her ends . |
| 10 | She spoke with a Dutch accent . |
| 11 | She heard John draw a sharp breath beside her but she spoke with a bright-eyed defiance , not to Lord Wyatt but at the crowd behind him , noting with pleasure their discomfiture and annoyance . |
| 12 | She was a big woman , tall and gaunt , and she spoke with a gruff , masculine voice . |
| 13 | ‘ She spoke about a young woman who had given birth in the same bed some years before . |
| 14 | She spoke in a brusque voice . |
| 15 | She spoke in a metallic tone of almost cynical exasperation , fixing Ludens with her intense dark stare . |
| 16 | She spoke in a low dutiful voice . |
| 17 | Her fists clenched and unclenched as she spoke in a low furious mutter . |
| 18 | She spoke in a low voice : ‘ I heard you down there with her . ’ |
| 19 | She spoke in a matter-of-fact tone , as though all the best people did . |
| 20 | She spoke in a hoarse whisper . |
| 21 | She spoke in a soft , quiet voice and old Ben looked at her in surprise . |
| 22 | She spoke in a quiet voice . |
| 23 | You spoke of a brilliant structure , |
| 24 | ‘ You spoke of a moral landscape for murder , ’ she said , ‘ Could you expand on that for us ? ’ |
| 25 | According to this view , instead of representing workers or peasants , they spoke for a new class spawned by advancing capitalism , the class from which they themselves sprang — the intelligentsia . |
| 26 | Hollywood black males were perceived as an amiable lot , eye-rolling , singin'n'jiving , ever ready to provide a shoeshine , while bandanas were obligatory for the female of the species — and if they spoke in a tiny , cutesy voice like Butterfly McQueen , then so much the better . |
| 27 | Secondly , in so far as it spoke to a general enlargement of the mind , the student experience was not confined to the acquisition of mere technique . |
| 28 | Unlike other loyalist parties , it spoke with a single clear voice : that of Ian Paisley . |
| 29 | Just three days before the workshop , he spoke to a virtual stranger about his firm intention to be in Hawaii in three days ' time , saying he had no idea how it would be made possible . |
| 30 | He spoke to a packed meeting at the Oxford Union , but the event had all the hallmarks of an American-style political convention . |