Example sentences of "he had spoken to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He replied that he had tried to get an attorney to break the contract and that he had spoken to this lawyer and that lawyer . |
| 2 | He had spoken to Paul Guillaume , an ambitious and knowledgeable young dealer , about Modigliani and went to some trouble to arrange an introduction . |
| 3 | The attitude of the men he had spoken to had been essentially laissez-faire , but some of the women , Raleigh Ward nurses especially , were still quite steamed up about it . |
| 4 | It was not then but ten minutes afterwards , when he had spoken to the solicitor and been assured there was no mistake , that Lewis began to dislike his son . |
| 5 | He had spoken to the elector about giving lessons to the royal children , for which he was rewarded not with cash , but with a watch ( unfortunately , he already had quite a collection of those ) . |
| 6 | The official he had spoken to had only said : |
| 7 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |
| 8 | He thought that none of those he had spoken to could have told him anything of the killing . |
| 9 | He had spoken to Lord John , but Manvell chose to answer . |
| 10 | Williamson felt he had a special bond with Hitler , and even at times imagined aloud that he had spoken to him on that fateful Christmas day . |
| 11 | As Tsar he was inclined to agree with the last person he had spoken to and to authorize wholly incompatible initiatives by different ministers . |
| 12 | Coming to the fifth question on the agenda — how can the development agencies contribute to the employment prospects of West Belfast residents both inside and outside of the area ? — one contributor said that he had spoken to marketing people from the IDB and that they had no interest in West Belfast . |
| 13 | He had spoken to his solicitor earlier , and the officer offered him the chance to see a solicitor , which was declined . |
| 14 | It is your land , Creggan , it is yours … ’ and she spoke to him gently as so often in the past he had spoken to her . |
| 15 | Winston phoned me back within an hour to say that he had spoken to Harriman , that Harriman had spoken to the State Department , that they had dispatched two telegrams — one to Pretoria and one to Cape Town , the places between which the governmental functions are divided — and that in addition he himself had sent a telegram to the Prime Minister of South Africa , signed by the not unimpressive name of Winston Churchill . |
| 16 | I heard later from the servants that he had spoken to Mrs Reed about me , and that she had agreed immediately to send me to school . |
| 17 | Roby 's fears of what that might mean weighed against the fact that John Simpson , the BBC diplomatic correspondent , reported that he had spoken to senior Iranian politicians and was convinced that the British hostages were alive . |
| 18 | Because Turakina 's private time had coincided with Burun 's return , he had spoken to his daughter only briefly . |
| 19 | Sidacai and the remaining Altun who were to ride with the command had arrived several days earlier , but since his return he had spoken to none of them . |
| 20 | He told her that he thought Terry was a prisoner of war because he had spoken to men who had returned from his Company . |
| 21 | He had spoken to no one about his discovery of Merymose 's body , not even to Taheb , who was distracted by the preparations for her reluctant departure , and had not questioned him when he told her that Merymose had not appeared at their meeting place . |
| 22 | As Harry stood there , lost in thought , the porter he had spoken to earlier appeared from the direction of the lodge , rattling a Punch of keys in his hand . |
| 23 | By the middle of January 1937 , he had spoken to Mairet , and he gave the impression that anything he might write about the crisis in the New English Weekly would be done with some reluctance , not least because he was extremely busy . |
| 24 | The raillery with which he had spoken to her in her early days at Vetch Street had changed its nature . |
| 25 | Unlike the way he had spoken to her earlier , or the previous time they had met . |
| 26 | The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive . |
| 27 | It was the first time he had spoken to his father since the crisis began , although he had never lost him to sight , not for a moment . |
| 28 | When he had spoken to Zoser something of this had come across , perhaps not consciously but perhaps not completely unconsciously either . |
| 29 | He had spoken to a world no longer able to listen . |
| 30 | He had told her , as frankly as he could , that the person he had spoken to — ‘ a person high in British Intelligence ’ — had wanted her to return to Germany ( or at least , to leave England ) and would not allow her to meet anybody else . |