Example sentences of "when [pron] spoke of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My word , what interest I kindled when I spoke of the hospital at Christmas . |
| 2 | You do n't know it , but my hair stood on end when you spoke of the future as you did . |
| 3 | He was a shadowy figure from the past whose name was scarcely ever mentioned except on those rare occasions when they spoke of the accident , that terrible accident that had claimed the lives of him and her mother when Harriet was only four years old . |
| 4 | When they spoke of the marks of fingers , I remembered the murder of my brother and I felt a terrible fear . |
| 5 | Well did the Book of Common prayer put it succinctly when it spoke of the relationship between us and God : ‘ Whose service is perfect freedom ’ . |
| 6 | On occasions Mr Parry was seen to wring his hands as he struggled with his emotions when he spoke of the impact of recent events , since the double IRA bomb blast cut down Tim and three-year-old Johnathan Ball in Warrington town centre on Saturday March 20 . |
| 7 | Stevenson knew this when he spoke of the ‘ subarctic sunsets , with the profile of the city stamped in indigo upon a sky of luminous green ’ . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Westminster , North touched on that , but he was not convincing when he spoke of the underlying causes of that crime . |