Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] speak of the " in BNC.

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1 Then we lowered the sail and sat in the sun , and Pierre spoke of the lot he and his fellow villagers had been born to , the weeks at sea , the gales , the great hauls of fish , the hardships and achievements of a Breton fisherman 's life , while we ate the food he had brought with him , and drank his rough cider .
2 Pierre Naville , for instance , enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world as ‘ automatic writing ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 99 ) .
3 Thus Naville enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world itself as ‘ automatic writing ’ .
4 And Spencer spoke of the ability to understand an experience with the wisdom of a child plus the older experience of later years .
5 Simon and Nigel spoke of the history of their branch .
6 My point here is that the surrealists and Benjamin spoke of the destruction of the ( modernist and auratic ) distinction between art and life .
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