Example sentences of "spoke of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the same , she had experienced an uneasy moment when he spoke of the unnamed traitor who had brought about his brother 's death . |
| 2 | Burton never — to my knowledge — spoke of the early mass of films he had seen with any of that significant affection other actors give to their earliest influences . |
| 3 | Again , the composer spoke of the Romanian voice in her music which came from a Jungian kind of collective unconsciousness . |
| 4 | In 1983 she spoke of the general election providing a ‘ choice ’ between two ways of life ; before the 1987 election she spoke of the election as the opportunity to ‘ kill off ’ left-wing socialism . |
| 5 | We also spoke of the encouraging future for South African cricket following recent changes in that long-isolated country , and of the good work being done by Ali Bacher and Steve Tshwete in uniting South African cricket at last , enabling former boycotters like myself to testify that the time had at last come to re-admit South African cricket to the international arena . |
| 6 | Back home this week , Mr Ivor Simon and Mr David Brown , both member of Teesside Yesteryear Motor Club , spoke of the six-day adventure which took them from Edinburgh to the Mediterranean coast . |
| 7 | In January 1875 Huxley spoke of the recent work on the ship and its relevance to geology , he was particularly interested in the way in which debris accumulates at the bottom of the sea because this would help in the interpretation of fossils . |
| 8 | Professor Rees spoke of the close relationship between academia and industry and stressed the need for this relationship to continue . |
| 9 | Mrs. Wilson , on behalf of the district council , spoke of the tremendous working relationship between the parish and district council . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Christ spoke of the lasting treasure of heaven . |
| 12 | ’ But he never spoke of the pitiful way in which the soul bowed its head humbly and submissively before the Lad . |
| 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 | ‘ Have you thought further on that we spoke of the other evening , Angelina ? ’ |
| 15 | This did not mean that they were wholly resistant to new ideas — that was clearly not the case because many spoke of the helpful advice and information given on the farming , nutrition , health and child care programmes — but they seemed to resist anything which either conflicted with views they already held or seemed to have no relevance to their experience . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's sounding bad , ’ Private Charlie Weller spoke of the distant gun-fire , which did not really sound so very awful yet , but Weller was feeling a flicker of nervousness and wanted the relief of conversation . |
| 17 | Speaking , again to NME 's Danny Kelly , Johnny Marr spoke of the snowballing effect on that tour : |
| 18 | In it Christian psychiatrists , care workers , medical experts , ministers and those who had come out of the occult scene , spoke of the appalling wake of damage left by the occult . |
| 19 | Andrée spoke of Saint-Simon and compared him to some English memoirists ; she spoke of the astonishing variety of the classical French novel , La Princesse des Clèves , Adolphe , Les Liaisons Dangereuses . |
| 20 | St Teresa of Avila also spoke of the obscure type of revelation , which both Julian and Muhammad described as ‘ spiritual visions ’ : |
| 21 | Mussolini spoke of the national spirit as a metaphysical concept , not a racialist one . |
| 22 | He spoke of the monstrous word Whip to describe the officer who marshals the privates . |
| 23 | Several companies spoke of the special value of headhunters when moving strategically into new business and/or geographical areas . |
| 24 | The figure in the painting spoke of the human spirit and looked out at the world with a serene timelessness , and eyes that knew the great gift of being a master and an artist . |
| 25 | The man who flew the hostages out , Virgin Chairman Richard Branson spoke of the human misery at the airport . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Mr Simpson spoke of the unaccustomed burden the landladies were having to carry and stressed the need for ‘ good public relations work ’ . |
| 28 | He spoke of the old woman . |
| 29 | He spoke of the enormous amount of new material he had seen The judge did th that is . |
| 30 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |