Example sentences of "speaking terms with " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Whitehorse the RCAF personnel maintained close relations with the USAF base there , and I was soon on speaking terms with the Americans , most of whom were engaged in flying or servicing aircraft operating between the States and Fairbanks , Alaska . |
| 2 | She was n't on speaking terms with Albert . |
| 3 | Like a lot of people in the sort of society we live in , you feel very isolated from everything around you and you do n't know the neighbours and you are only barely on speaking terms with the shopkeeper . |
| 4 | Later research shows this story to have been unlikely : the Court was not at Wilton at the time and the Earl of Pembroke was not on speaking terms with Laud . |
| 5 | In places , it escapes from confining boulder slopes and low cliffs and gives uninterrupted views across a wild moorland interspersed with sheets of water to the distant mountains soaring abruptly skywards in complete isolation as though not on speaking terms with each other . |
| 6 | By that I do n't mean he could n't have been responsible for their deaths , I just mean that I do n't think he 's on speaking terms with his conscience . |
| 7 | Around them the trees were silent : the day was windless , and the birds were n't on speaking terms with one another . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've heard that he was n't on speaking terms with Alfred and that the feud — whatever it was — goes back many years … ’ |
| 9 | And besides , she thought irritably , did she even want to be on speaking terms with him after the way he had treated her ? |
| 10 | Maisie was no longer on speaking terms with any of her family ever since her stepbrother 's son had asked her where she had parked the camel and when she was going to be circumcised . |
| 11 | She was not even on speaking terms with Anthony Swan , the Labour MP who had accompanied her to Paris three or four years before . |
| 12 | Our nightly promenade up and down the road has put us on speaking terms with the whole neighbourhood . |