Example sentences of "who spoke [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbara Franklin , US Secretary of Commerce , launched the proceedings , followed by Pehr Gyllenhammar , executive chairman of Volvo , who spoke on the accountant 's role in a global economy . |
| 2 | The North branch , small and isolated in comparison , concentrated on propaganda and education work , helped at one meeting by John MacLean who spoke on the organisation of economic classes ( BSP , NWH branch , Minutes 12 August 17 ) . |
| 3 | Those who spoke on behalf of the elderly found themselves in a dilemma . |
| 4 | The second case concerns a somewhat lesser man : Guillaume-Sanche de Pommiers , damoiseau , who spoke on behalf of his two co-heirs and co-seigneurs , pierre and Pierre-Amanieu de Pommiers , when he acknowledged that they ‘ held in fee , immediately from the … king of England , lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine , the castle of Pommiers with the honour , and all that these co-heirs hold in the parishes of Morizès and Escaude , and at Tremblet , and the toll which they levy on land at Garges , near La Réole ’ . |
| 5 | Addresses were given by Rev. Alexander McKenzie of Port Ellen , who spoke on " Mental Culture , " John G. Lerach of Lagavulin on " Education , " Hector McLean of Ballygrant on " Agriculture " and John Hart Estcourt on " Ways and Means . " |
| 6 | As that applies also to the subject of mining , I shall give that advice to the hon. Member for Gordon , who spoke on a subject about which he knows very little — and it showed . |
| 7 | A person who spoke on behalf of Michael Fallon is reported to have said that Mr Fallon would never agree to share a platform with anyone like that . |
| 8 | Gerster , who spoke on German radio and in a newspaper interview , said the new law should drop residency requirements for prospective citizens from over 10 years to eight or less . |
| 9 | Original Tutor Muriel Alcock and her successors Ann Boast and Rosemary Frost were there , also Carol Ash , the original Adult Education Organiser , who spoke on the history of the Class . |
| 10 | And I have to keep a diary of who spoke on it . |
| 11 | One man who spoke about already having made the decision to only have safer sex was ridiculed by some of the others . |
| 12 | She bought textbooks , studied in bed at dawn , and went every night to evening classes given by a frockcoated seer who spoke about calculus as though it were a way of life . |
| 13 | I shall not follow the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh ( Mr. Mallon ) who spoke about Ireland , because I am not qualified to do so , except to say that Ireland recently gave us the best rugby match in the world cup . |
| 14 | The village 50/60 club has praised a thoroughly enjoyable talk with slides given by David Compy who spoke about his experiences in Egypt . |
| 15 | It was God who spoke through the prophets , declares the writer of Hebrews . |
| 16 | There were others as well : Robert Green , the nephew of horticulturalist Hilda Murrell , who was murdered in suspicious circumstances during the Sizewell inquiry ; Ron Preddy , a registered disabled man who gradually developed the confidence to speak out ; May Morris , one of many women who spoke with convincing honesty about their personal fears and beliefs . |
| 17 | It was only after the personal intervention of Göring , who spoke with Lipski by telephone on 6 August , that it was agreed Danzig would return to a fixed currency levy . |
| 18 | I learned for the first time what it was to be a stranger , an immigrant from primitive parts who spoke with a funny accent and called things by their wrong names . |
| 19 | The faceless ones who spoke with the omnipotent voice of authority and who , for the duration of hostilities , would be obeyed without question . |
| 20 | Unlike her uncle and aunt , who spoke with the Northern inflection , drawing one word into another , she pronounced the last syllable of each word . |
| 21 | And we were n't the only delegates to be suffering from jet lag : AI members from 70-plus countries were represented from Moscow and Kuwait , who spoke with their colleagues from the new sections : Philippines , Mauritius , Sierra Leone and Argentina . |
| 22 | Erlich told Rutherford what he knew of the assassin who spoke with an English accent , and to whom the word ‘ Colt ’ had been shouted . |
| 23 | Jane was in the tiny kitchen talking quietly to Mrs Rooney , a tiny white-haired woman , who spoke with a broad Scottish accent . |
| 24 | There was a knock at the door ; I opened it and there he was , a tall , slightly stooping figure who spoke with a gentle voice . |
| 25 | It was a conclusion reinforced by a subsequent telephone conversation with Mr Fairfax-Vane , who convinced me an appointment had indeed been made for him to come here — by a woman clearly younger than me , who spoke with a faintly American accent . |
| 26 | It was finally answered by a man who spoke with an artificial , lazy drawl and was suspicious when she asked for Urquhart by name . |
| 27 | When Curtis had gone Wycliffe asked the operator to get Sidney Passmore 's number and he was put through to a woman who spoke with self-conscious refinement . |
| 28 | The victim was forced to hand over his watch to the youths , who spoke with southern accents . |
| 29 | The women who spoke to me often had an intense nostalgia for East Africa . |
| 30 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |