Example sentences of "he speak of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He makes a great deal , as we have seen , of the gift of the Holy Spirit to Jesus : but only once in the ministry does he speak of the disciples having the Spirit . |
| 2 | He has taken to disrupting romantic trysts in the village by pouring glue into the hair of those girls who step out with soldiers ; his motive being to encourage the largest possible number of servicemen to attend his lectures , where he speaks of the mysteries of the countryside . |
| 3 | He speaks of the Logos made flesh . |
| 4 | Roger Duvoisin ( 1965 , p.25 ) extends this idea when he speaks of the well-designed page . |
| 5 | The question that arises here is whether Gandhi is referring to an ‘ essence ’ or ‘ primordial element ’ when he speaks of the heart of one religion being identical with the heart of another religion . |
| 6 | Gandhi , as we have seen , uses different terminology when he speaks of the symbols of religion becoming fetishes which , in his view , are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 7 | The presenter of This Is Your Life flinches when he speaks of the recent major surgery on Patrick 's hip . |
| 8 | He speaks of the trouble he has in getting paid , his fear of old age and its isolation and poverty when he can no longer work ; and he describes the privations and pains of his working conditions . |
| 9 | In the realm of philosophy , Lyotard ( 1984 ) echoes a similar view when he speaks of the jubilation , delight and intensification of a sense of being , that arises out of conceiving new categories . |
| 10 | Similarly , in 1469 he speaks of the rising against Edward IV as a whirlwind coming down from the North ( 14 , pp.531 , 542 ) . |
| 11 | He spoke of the monstrous word Whip to describe the officer who marshals the privates . |
| 12 | He spoke of the way Britain failed to take care of the environment and lamented the creeping of towns and the vanishing of the fields and hedgerows , not so much because of the animals as because of the air and the nature of man and the liberty of the soul . |
| 13 | Somewhat sceptical , he spoke of the need for single rooms , safety , security … and the importance of accommodating dogs . |
| 14 | ‘ Despondent souls , ’ it was said , ‘ and there are not a few of these , seem to have been struck only by one part of the Führer 's speech : where he spoke of the preparations for the winter campaign in 1942–43 . |
| 15 | A day later , he spoke of the imminent ‘ heroic epic ’ of Stalingrad . |
| 16 | He spoke of the ‘ anger and disgust ’ of judges over a ‘ campaign of calumny ’ waged against Lord Lane , the senior judge of England and Wales , following a series of embarrassing judicial reversals in recent years . |
| 17 | Lord Scarman referred to violence and disorder ‘ the like of which had not previously been seen in this century in Britain ’ , while one Conservative MP summed up this orthodox reaction in a parliamentary debate ( on 13 April 1981 ) when he spoke of the riots as ‘ something new and sinister in our long national history ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He spoke of the old woman . |
| 20 | He spoke of the build-up of the forces , with all the linguistic problems involved . |
| 21 | Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’ |
| 22 | He spoke of the affection he and his uncle had had for each other and what a marvellous counsellor he had been . |
| 23 | His voice trembling and his eyes watering , he spoke of the ‘ bright new beginning ’ . |
| 24 | He spoke of the Bank of England 's intervention , the interest rate rises and the reversal that followed . |
| 25 | He spoke of the need for active government . |
| 26 | He spoke of the ‘ renaissance in world history ’ that was taking place along the rim of the Pacific , and declared that his country — the greater part of which , he told his audience , lay ‘ East of the Urals ’ — was about to develop a coherent attitude towards it and its people . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He spoke of the nobility of the struggle , not of the failure of achievement . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He had lived in Normandy for seven months , he had learned the French language and come to love the French countryside , yet now , just as if he had never met Lucille , he spoke of the french as a hated enemy . |