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 . |