Example sentences of "spoke [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ERNEST Saunders , jailed for his part in the Guinness affair , has given a lecture to business students in which he spoke about ethics in management . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | I sat one night at Pinewood Studios with him right until make-up call the next day while he spoke about Errol Flynn the entire time . |
| 34 | Offering the meagre purse of local gossip , news from Buttermere , Nicholson spoke about Mr Skelton 's plans for building a large stone manor house in the area ; dwelt longingly on the prospect of Miss Skelton and said something about the wrestling which included a mention of Mary of Buttermere and a young man from the north of the county walking thirty or forty miles just to see her and make his feelings known to her . |
| 35 | It blew open those divisions , but did not stop the present Prime Minister saying , when he spoke as Chancellor in that debate : ’ I believe that they will vote for the consistency , courage and conviction with which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has led this country so successfully for so long . ’ |
| 36 | Ron said he spoke for Don when he told Luke that he was a great admirer of his material . |
| 37 | Some spoke for Caledor , some spoke for Malekith . |
| 38 | Another refugee , already settled in Northampton , spoke for Adisa 's bewildered mother . |
| 39 | Sitting at the table one evening next to Astrid 's mum , Peg , from Massachusetts , he opened up , as one sometimes can , to an interested stranger and spoke for hours about the old days and about his condition and his feelings . |
| 40 | Some spoke for Caledor , some spoke for Malekith . |
| 41 | The ‘ Europeans ’ lined up with the ‘ technologists ’ ( and those who spoke for party opinion in the Commons ) against the Treasury . |
| 42 | He believed that he came from God , revealed God , spoke for God , acted for God , was a channel for God 's grace and salvation . |
| 43 | In fact she hardly spoke for days . |
| 44 | Professor Paul Grout spoke after dinner and reminded all present of one of the essential purposes of a university : to provide bright young graduates for future employment . |
| 45 | And though there was something immeasurably sad about this hopeless daily wait , yet sometimes , just briefly , Creggan would catch her looking in his direction in a way that spoke of support and encouragement . |
| 46 | She spoke of tears at times until they got it right but accepted the suffering as he had no favourites and called them all his ‘ dolly girls ’ . |
| 47 | However , a Hungarian radio report of Nov. 13 spoke of panic buying . |
| 48 | She saw the flicker of pain cross his face as she spoke of Lizzy and guessed that he was thinking of his own daughter . |
| 49 | She spoke of feelings but she knew nothing of sympathy or pity . |
| 50 | Amateur radio reports spoke of Serb fighters shelling the escape routes used by fleeing civilians . |
| 51 | I spoke of fate — surely if you listen to your heart , you will see that she has plans for us that go far beyond the merging of our two practices . ’ |
| 52 | Here Nuer theology seems to echo the thoughts of the ancient Sicilian philosopher Empedocles who spoke of god as ‘ a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere ’ . |
| 53 | Songs spoke of drink , drugs , injustice and the underdog fighting back , although some were simply love songs . |
| 54 | Perhaps he noticed , for he stopped and asked me whether Jean-Claude ever spoke of Montaine . |
| 55 | Prime Minister John Major spoke of Clinton 's ‘ stunning victory ’ and hoped Britain 's ‘ special relationship ’ with Washington would not change . |
| 56 | Lord Beaverbrook , who headed the new ministry of information in 1918 , saw it as " a second Foreign Office at home with a new set of representatives abroad " and thought and spoke of propaganda as " the popular arm of diplomacy " . |
| 57 | Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians . |
| 58 | Andrée spoke of Saint-Simon and compared him to some English memoirists ; she spoke of the astonishing variety of the classical French novel , La Princesse des Clèves , Adolphe , Les Liaisons Dangereuses . |
| 59 | Lady Irwin in ‘ An Epistle to Mr. Pope ’ spoke of women ‘ … |
| 60 | He had grown into a slim blond young man , slightly ashen from his long hospital hours , a little frenzied and erratic in his gestures which spoke of bouts of sleeplessness and an adrenaline-fuelled energy . |