Example sentences of "[adv] to speak " in BNC.
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| 1 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 2 | Nevertheless in London the abortive strike was accompanied by great bitterness , much of it directed at Wilson who had been bold enough to speak the unpalatable truth in difficult circumstances . |
| 3 | I felt brave enough to speak to her , since I too liked reading . |
| 4 | ‘ I wish I was like you , ’ I said suddenly , still childish enough to speak like this , to say what I meant without recourse to subtlety . |
| 5 | No I did n't know much about the glen at all But no nothing exciting enough to speak about . |
| 6 | She raged silently all the way back to the cottage , but it was only when the front door closed behind them that she could trust herself enough to speak . |
| 7 | I accept that the patient may not feel confident enough to speak and discuss medical matters with a police surgeon , especially if allegations are made of trauma acquired during police custody . |
| 8 | I was against this sport all along , but it is only now that I have read the page in the Leicester Mercury that I feel bold enough to speak out to you . |
| 9 | Now well enough to speak about the accident for the first time , he says it 's amazing he survived . |
| 10 | Michael Heseltine was keen to demonstrate his fitness after the heart attack he suffered in Italy in summer … but he 'd decided he was n't strong enough to speak . |
| 11 | She put her name down to speak in the great debate about the state of the English Faculty that was held in the University Senate ; and in the Cambridge University Reporter for the 18th February , 1981 , occupying a column and a half of small print , sandwiched between contributions from two of the University 's most distinguished professors , you may find Robyn 's impassioned plea for a radical theorization of the syllabus . |
| 12 | A good four inches taller than his companion , he bent down to speak to her . |
| 13 | Every day they gazed with trembling at the cloud covering the mountain ( Exodus 19:16–20 ) , for it signified God 's coming down to speak with them . |
| 14 | Cadfael went to meet them as Sulien lighted down to speak hurriedly to the porter . |
| 15 | He went in to speak to one of the tellers . |
| 16 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ My constable in Burford is convinced you were still drunk when you rode in to speak to him . ’ |
| 18 | It has been an exhausting three days for the Labour Whips as they trawled the corridors of the Palace to try to find people who they could wheel in to speak in this debate . |
| 19 | ‘ If we put ten names in to speak against the motion , even that poor bugger Webb-Bowen will have to pick one of us . |
| 20 | Shelley went in to speak quietly to her patients , trying to push to the back of her mind the knowledge that she might have left the drug cupboard open in her anxiety yesterday . |
| 21 | He used these to preach that kings are made , and can only be unmade , by God , to whom solely they are responsible ; that sedition is opposed no less to God than to the king ; that it is a sin not merely to speak evil of the king but even to think evil of him . |
| 22 | Yesterday , Mr Baron said that strict justice demanded that ‘ the European Parliament can not go on being regarded as a marginal institution , able only to speak but not to take decisions ’ . |
| 23 | I am not going out of my mind , she thought , and if , at the moment , the outside world does not recognise me for what I am , my sister knows she has only to speak a word here and there , to take a decision , and who will listen to me ? |
| 24 | It took the form of Baldwin agreeing only to speak for himself and of leaving open the question of an election . |
| 25 | How hopeless and ludicrous everything was : the seas of incomprehension , the misunderstandings that could never be cleared up because we seemed not only to speak different languages but to inhabit different countries . |
| 26 | This was a man of authority , a man of power , who had only to speak and everybody around him flew into action . |
| 27 | McAllister had gone out , but only to speak to Rose , who had managed to obtain a new post as a maid-of-all-work , and , her half-day off also being Wednesday , had come to ask McAllister to go up West with her again . |
| 28 | To allow Buster only to speak and not to move seemed to be the height of folly . ’ |
| 29 | Sergei and Anton , from Chernobyl , too shy perhaps to speak even a few words in their own language . |
| 30 | But at the same time he was both transmitter and receiver , so to speak . |