Example sentences of "spoke [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His regiment 's chaplain spoke of him in the warmest terms as a man of the highest principles . |
| 2 | He always spoke of him in the most affectionate terms . |
| 3 | But Mr Chadwin said when police officers spoke to him in the early hours of the following morning when he was in the car with Miss Jeanette near Catterick Bridge they had not noticed any dramatic injuries . |
| 4 | I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures . |
| 5 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 6 | ‘ A man spoke to me in the graveyard , ’ Ruth announced , as they ate at the table . |