Example sentences of "[noun] speak from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now as promised it 's time to zig zag to the onion bag … what is this man talking about … it 's football speak from Cambridge manager John Beck whose team play Swindon tomorrow … it 's the order he gives to his strikers before a game … zig zag … well that means running … weaving with the ball … the onion bag is the goal net of course … so here we go with this week 's football roundup |
| 2 | Brockway , Mann and Pollitt spoke from a joint platform at the May Day Rally in Hyde Park . |
| 3 | Liban spoke from behind Ruth . |
| 4 | The Peckham Rye Women 's Liberation Group speak from personal experience when they say that housework is : |
| 5 | The managing director spoke from the car and he never followed it up . |
| 6 | I have always suffered from nightmares , and at first I thought to press one of them into service , believing that dreams speak from some inner truth , and that in their very unlikelihood lies something more plausible to our inner beings than the most prosaic diurnal life . |
| 7 | It was the old female eagle speaking from the darkness near him , repeating the name he had finally spoken . |
| 8 | They walked into the hall , and both jumped when Clyde the night watchman spoke from the shadows behind them . |
| 9 | Great poets speak from a position of morality , of authority and that 's the one thing these people ca n't abide . |
| 10 | In last week 's edition of The Sunday Telegraph , Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote : ’ It was a woman speaking from inside Dubrovnik against a background of shellfire who said : We expected so much from Europe and got so little . ' |
| 11 | Adorno speaks from the vantage-point of modernism ( though , as we have seen , he arguably gives this too monolithic an interpretation ) : his ideal is an individual critique , which is negative in relation to society but also constitutes a positive synthesis — an alternative . |
| 12 | In the meantime we may note that , right or wrong , balanced or not , Leonard spoke from the heart — as did the prophets of old ; the sell-out qualities of the book demonstrated the need , as well as his astuteness in compiling his selection . |
| 13 | Ian Taylor speaks from personal experience when writing about chalk pits . |
| 14 | The Conservatives in Blackpool : Lawson speaks from beyond the graveyard |
| 15 | It turns from Proust 's text and looks outward to the language system in general ; and at the same time it represents de Man 's voice speaking from outside and intruding into Proust 's text . |
| 16 | Erm probates Or rather procedure on death because probate is proving a will , in the Latin if there 's no will it 's letters of administration which is a similar procedure , except that the will speaks from death and therefore your appointment of the executors is effective from death and therefore your appointment of executors is effective from death , they can do certain things even before they 've proven the will Which administrators ca n't do cos they do n't have the power until they 've proved that they 're the people entitled . |
| 17 | An outstanding American teacher of music speaks from her own experience of young children ( Upitis 1990 : 2 ) : " We have one strong factor in our favor in taking on the task of helping people become musicians , and that is , in some form all of us are already musicians . " |
| 18 | Jacob speaks from the heart . |
| 19 | When an incongruously cheerful voice spoke from somewhere behind her , she went absolutely rigid with shock . |
| 20 | As she stared up at the height a voice spoke from behind her , and she turned to discover that Silas Wilder had followed her down the track . |
| 21 | Brightly patterned bunk covers and matching curtains provided splashes of colour , and , having examined each one in turn , she was about to leave number four when Silas 's voice spoke from the doorway . |
| 22 | And then Doreen 's voice spoke from behind her . |
| 23 | Shiona jumped and spun round , startled , as a voice spoke from the drawing-room doorway behind her . |
| 24 | Party chairman John Evans , backed by union leaders , wants a return to the tradition allowing only NEC members to speak from the platform . |
| 25 | Madeleine spoke from the doorway . |
| 26 | " I do wish I had a Naughty Friend , " Nicandra spoke from the bottom of her heart as she lagged her way back to Dada and the sofa , bringing the red leather-bound book that had lain on top of other red leather-bound books piled one above the other on the lower shelf of a mahogany whatnot . |
| 27 | ‘ On the contrary , Susan speaks from experience . |
| 28 | Niall spoke from the doorway . |
| 29 | A preliminary meeting in Manchester in October 1853 got the support of the BFASS committee ; when an inaugural gathering was held Sturge and Thompson spoke from the same platform and it was resolved that the Manchester Anti-Slavery Union should become an auxiliary of the BFASS . |
| 30 | For fourteen years she had delivered the Leader 's speech on the last afternoon of the conference ; she was too old a hand to speak from the floor . |