Example sentences of "[adv] if [pers pn] [vb mod] speak " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if she could speak to Mahoney again , tell him what happened out by Mountpelier that morning , he would tell her more . |
| 2 | Presenting herself at the servant 's entrance , Joan asked nervously if she might speak to the housekeeper . |
| 3 | To her dismay , Robert himself answered , but , ignoring this stroke of bad luck , she asked calmly if she could speak to Dawn . |
| 4 | In the Yeats memorial lecture in Dublin , for example , he talked about the theatre as a medium for " the expression of the consciousness of a people " and two years later he castigated the failure of most poetic drama to evoke the rhythms of " colloquial speech " ; he returned to this theme a year later when , in a preface to S. L. Bethell 's Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition , he described the language of poetic drama as the language which people " would speak today if they could speak in poetry " . |
| 5 | Remember that language is a shared activity and that you will only be able to put your message across if you can speak easily and fluently . |