Example sentences of "[vb past] often spoken " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie had often spoken to one of the very black men who lived at Nanny 's house in Lansdowne Place . |
| 2 | Dad had often spoken about the Railway Hotel just across the road from what remained of the station , and how he used to play the battered old piano and have a sing-song with his pals . |
| 3 | Something wondering and recapitulatory in his tone brought to mind the way I had often spoken of Jess in her absence : odd , I thought , the way men tended to prize their partners more highly when they were elsewhere ; almost as though the idea of relationship was more satisfactory than its practice . |
| 4 | There was an Islamic doctrine , of which the headmaster had often spoken to Robert , known as ijma . |
| 5 | Mr Webster said his daughter had often spoken of her ambition . |