Example sentences of "he speak [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He speaks about the archaeological finds that have been made in Cyprus 's mines — the reed ore baskets , the wooden winches and woven ropes , the skeletons cramped in galleries less than one metre high . |
| 2 | The presenter of This Is Your Life flinches when he speaks of the recent major surgery on Patrick 's hip . |
| 3 | Roger Duvoisin ( 1965 , p.25 ) extends this idea when he speaks of the well-designed page . |
| 4 | Now , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown plans to raise the whole issue when he speaks at the Welsh Labour conference in Llandudno later today . |
| 5 | Please pray for these dear brothers and sisters in Christ , and try very hard to hear Theo Angelov when he speaks at the Scottish Baptist Assembly in Edinburgh at the end of October . |
| 6 | He speaks with the similar looking stocky girls . |
| 7 | He speaks with the considerable experience of someone who served as a Minister in the Department of Employment . |
| 8 | Then he spoke to the young woman again . |
| 9 | He spoke to the financial controller too . |
| 10 | He spoke with the gentle cruelty he could show towards his models and which made some of them call him Charley the Knife . |
| 11 | He had long ago accepted the feudal organization of Church and baronage as an adequate way of organizing the world : the real questions of salvation lay in a quite different area of experience , and on these he spoke with the simple and clear authority of a personal vision and prolonged thought . |
| 12 | In that same year he spoke at the National Free Church Council 's tercentenary celebration of Cromwell 's birth , held in his own City Temple . |
| 13 | Feldstein told Holly at what time they went over to the Kitchen for the evening 's food and he spoke of the compulsory attendance afterwards at the Political Education Unit . |
| 14 | He spoke of the close links what had been forged through trade with Spain and Portugal , whose wines had been exchanged for skins , wool and fish . |
| 15 | Just the same , she had experienced an uneasy moment when he spoke of the unnamed traitor who had brought about his brother 's death . |
| 16 | That evening Carter gave a warm toast to the Shah in which he spoke of the great importance of Iran 's relationship to the United States . |
| 17 | He had lived in Normandy for seven months , he had learned the French language and come to love the French countryside , yet now , just as if he had never met Lucille , he spoke of the french as a hated enemy . |
| 18 | He spoke of the monstrous word Whip to describe the officer who marshals the privates . |
| 19 | But he spoke of the Italian traders as exploiters of Spain and Gaul ( fr. 116–17 ) and showed how the native defenders of Numantia valued freedom ( Diod. 34.4.1–2 ) . |
| 20 | A day later , he spoke of the imminent ‘ heroic epic ’ of Stalingrad . |
| 21 | He spoke of the different types and causes of this illness and of the painstaking work of the research team trying to find new ways of treatment . |
| 22 | He spoke of the old woman . |
| 23 | Seldes marvellously captured the great down-town appeal of the movies when he spoke of the irresistible lure of ‘ the tinkle of a tinny piano playing a ragtime ’ which floated ‘ to the street from a darkened doorway ’ but the point about the movies was that they were not just a city or down-town phenomenon , they were everywhere . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Westminster , North touched on that , but he was not convincing when he spoke of the underlying causes of that crime . |
| 25 | He spoke of the enormous amount of new material he had seen The judge did th that is . |
| 26 | He spoke from the front door . |
| 27 | Monday marked the first time he spoke from the Oval Office , sitting at John F Kennedy 's desk , on a national holiday celebrating George Washington 's birthday . |
| 28 | I am in no doubt about the hon. Gentleman 's views as he has tabled parliamentary questions on the matter , he took part in the debate on the regulations on 1 May , he spoke in the Scottish Grand Committee on 9 July and he submitted his views in the consultation process . |