Example sentences of "that he spoke to " in BNC.

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1 The strange thing was that he spoke to everybody with a different accent .
2 Mr Alfred Nzo , general secretary of the ANC , said yesterday that he spoke to Mr Mandela for the first time in 26 years .
3 Anton was shocked enough that he spoke to him but almost jumped when the hand fell on his knee .
4 He had been very careful in the way that he spoke to her and was very apologetic when he swore .
5 To Churchill and other Allied leaders de Gaulle claimed to speak for France : his subsequent career as Liberator , Father-figure and statesman owed much to the fact that he spoke to the French — when all seemed lost .
6 His voice seemed deeper and fuller now that he spoke to his own kind ; echoes moved in the light .
7 Opening his travelling exhibitions gave Carolan plenty of opportunities to speak , and the " Left is Right Group " ensured that he spoke to enthusiastic audiences of his followers .
8 And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men .
9 The Commander-in-Chief in 1939 felt it necessary to review his " troops ' ; and when he came to Driffield he obviously felt that the Occasion was so important that he spoke to the officers in one corner of the hangar and spoke to the sergeant pilots in another .
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