Example sentences of "soon as [pers pn] [vb past] to speak " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gildas , smiling his crooked smile across the table and reading his friend 's thoughts , said , ‘ Do n't worry , she said very little , virtually nothing , as soon as she started to speak she decided not to . |
| 2 | She heard the excitement in Stephen 's voice as soon as he began to speak . |
| 3 | But with Blufton the spell , the sense that he was engaged in some elaborate , magical charade , was broken as soon as he began to speak . |
| 4 | His playing of Prince Hal … turned interested speculation to awe as soon as he started to speak : in the first intermission the local critics stood agape in the lobbies . |
| 5 | AS soon as he rose to speak , it was clear this was not the same John Major who won the Tories a fourth election . |