Example sentences of "he spoke of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Just the same , she had experienced an uneasy moment when he spoke of the unnamed traitor who had brought about his brother 's death . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He spoke of the monstrous word Whip to describe the officer who marshals the privates . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He spoke of the old woman . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Westminster , North touched on that , but he was not convincing when he spoke of the underlying causes of that crime . |
| 11 | He spoke of the enormous amount of new material he had seen The judge did th that is . |