Example sentences of "had spoken of the " in BNC.

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1 Moreover Mr Justice Jowitt had spoken of the temptation on the part of women to ‘ exaggerate or fabricate ’ when questions of sexual misconduct were involved .
2 Even in our short journey the taxi driver had spoken of the soukoyant , the witch who takes off her skin at night and flies about like a bat .
3 For Zarathustra had spoken of the good and evil spirits as twins and thereby implied that they had a common origin .
4 Sir Charles Coote , over 30 years earlier , had spoken of the large brick houses and well assorted shops , though he clearly regarded Richhill as being more important .
5 She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity .
6 Later Chant and the Maestro had spoken of the event , and Chant had identified the creature .
7 Then he remembered how Bigwig , after his reconnaissance on the previous day , had spoken of the little white sticks in the grass .
8 At that time the guardian 's report had spoken of the intense conflict between the mother and the father and the consequent effect upon the children of that conflict .
9 The bible was reinterpreted ; even Christ , she argued , had spoken of the eventual disappearance of the male species .
10 Daniel 7:10 had spoken of the stream of fire issuing from the throne of God , and this too is picked up in one of the Qumran hymns which describe the molten river of judgment that will befall the world in the last day ( I QH 3:28ff ) Probably this idea was in John 's mind .
11 Dharsono was released from jail exactly a month after President Suharto had spoken of the need " to promote human rights " during his National Day speech .
12 Earlier , Do Muoi had spoken of the " great historic significance " of the visit .
13 During his election campaign Demirel had spoken of the need for a strong hand in dealing with Kurdish guerrillas .
14 Goumba , who questioned the government 's commitment to a national conference , also said that items had been deleted from the meeting 's agenda , dealing with the media and an electoral code , while President André Kolingba in his New Year address had spoken of the February conference as a " broad national debate " which " can not be a sovereign national conference " .
15 This was not new — the Dominican John Bromyard in his Summa Predicantium of the fourteenth century had spoken of the mutual hostility of northerners and southerners ( 230 , p.563 ) .
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