Example sentences of "spoke [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spoke about it at length and Richard asked intelligent questions . |
| 2 | The friar knew of them and spoke of them as good men illegally dispossessed and driven from their homes ; the verderers spoke of them with fear . |
| 3 | She was introduced to him by a friend who spoke of him with admiration . |
| 4 | Abdu retained a great loyalty to his former mistress and spoke of her with reverence . |
| 5 | Everyone spoke of it with affection . |
| 6 | I always spoke with him in Greek , and as you perhaps realize , Greek is a naturally sensual and uneuphemistic language . |
| 7 | Spoke to him about child who had epileptic fit in coach on journey to School this morning and he supplied further details . |
| 8 | The man spoke to him in Russian . |
| 9 | ‘ When the caretaker found you , you spoke to him in Russian . |
| 10 | As both parents spoke to him in Punjabi for most of the time this did not seem surprising . |
| 11 | He spoke to him in German . |
| 12 | Adam spoke to him in French . |
| 13 | Incidentally , I spoke to him by house telephone yesterday evening shortly after eight o'clock and , again , at about nine fifteen . |
| 14 | ‘ You spoke to them in Portuguese ? ’ |
| 15 | And I felt happy , and I spoke to her of love . |
| 16 | The outer door was thrown open with haste and ceremony , to admit a cloaked and booted gentleman who swept through the anteroom on a gust of chill April air , shedding a knot of servants and gallants at the threshold , and hurling all doors open before him with an alacrity that spoke to her of royalty . |
| 17 | ‘ They always spoke to us in English . ’ |