Example sentences of "speak from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Anyone is free to decide that life is too short for such unriddlings ; others ( I speak from experience ) may develop a taste for them .
2 The chronologically first and formally most decorous of his critical books , The Spirit of Romance ( originally 1910 ) , can very profitably be used — I speak from experience — as a manual for able undergraduates ; especially if taken along with Confucius to Cummings , the anthology that many decades later Pound compiled along with Marcella Spann .
3 I speak from experience !
4 It is all too easy ( I speak from experience ) when you hit on a sequence of events that seems funny , to get the bit between your teeth and run on and on .
5 I speak from experience , as my wife and I had to turn back and miss the December 1990 meeting .
6 I speak from experience , having met many Gartree governors .
7 You may laugh at this rvolutionary theory BUT I speak from experience .
8 Er the speed they come out of that bend is unbelievable and I speak from experience Madam Chairman because my daughter lives on that very corner where the bend is and er
9 Speak from love .
10 GUIL : So you speak from knowledge ?
11 I only speak from observation ; yours may be different , I grant .
12 My right hon. Friend will not be surprised to learn that I speak from gut reaction rather than a detailed knowledge of the law or the statistics , but I believe that my gut reaction is shared by the vast majority of people in this country .
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