Example sentences of "have [adv] spoken [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Skokov has rarely spoken in public ( in his three years in parliament , he did not make a single speech ) , yet he has been one of Russia 's most influential politicians . |
| 2 | ‘ She has not spoken for a month . |
| 3 | A MYSTERY man who has not spoken for almost a week broke his silence yesterday to Darlington police . |
| 4 | Former teacher Mrs Adams , 38 , has not spoken to anyone since Tuesday 's tragedy . |
| 5 | ‘ I know Duff has spoken to Lennox 's American promoter Dan Duva , but he has not spoken to anybody directly involved with Lennox 's career in Britain . ’ |
| 6 | He has not spoken to the child 's mother , Monika Kocanek , nor made any attempt to see the baby since her birth . |
| 7 | Anyway , he has not spoken to me all day . ’ |
| 8 | Mr has not spoken to me about this |
| 9 | ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’ |
| 10 | If the amendment is seconded by another person who has not spoken on the original motion , the Chairman must accept it as a new motion , subject to the provisos that the amendment is not a simple negative of the motion ; is relevant ; does not cover ground that has been dealt with under a previous amendment ; and is not frivolous nor illegal . |
| 11 | When the number of members on the committee is small , it may be difficult to abide by the proviso that the amendment must be seconded by someone who has not spoken on the original motion , and in that case common sense prevails . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Edinburgh , South ( Mr. Griffiths ) has just spoken in a debate on a United Kingdom Bill and is entirely entitled to do so . |
| 13 | ‘ Bill Martin , chief UK economist at Phillips and Drew , has already spoken of the need for an independent watchdog to ‘ protect the interests of non-Treasury use of economic data ’ . |
| 14 | No one has ever spoken of the child who must have been born to Dierdriu , and who had given birth to himself and Grainne . |
| 15 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton also referred to the need to maintain what he described as the quality of managers in prisons , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has also spoken about that . |
| 16 | Luke has often spoken of you . |
| 17 | She has n't spoken to her since . |
| 18 | Agnes first screwed up her face , then she stretched it before she muttered , ‘ That cousin Mary in Durham , the one you have n't spoken to for twelve years , if not longer , or , as I should say , who has n't spoken to you since she married Mr Boston , a man of supposed wealth and position , and got too big for her boots , as you 've often stated ? |
| 19 | This afternoon she 's managed to confirm that they are all willing — except for Armitage , whom she says she has n't spoken to . |
| 20 | He has n't spoken to me except in anger for nine years ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ She has n't spoken to me since . |
| 22 | There is one woman who regularly gazes across to her old home at Wouldham and if her brother is in his garden can see him plainly , but has n't spoken to him for several years . |
| 23 | ‘ Anna has n't spoken to me at all , ’ confessed Seb unhappily . |
| 24 | She has n't spoken since the day she got here , I 'm told , and that 's long before my time , ’ said Kraal aggressively . |
| 25 | Semiotics has conventionally spoken in terms of a tripartite model of signifier , signified , and referent , in which the signifier is commonly a word or statement , the signified is a concept or thought , and the referent is the object in the real ( and social ) world to which both signifier and signified connect . |
| 26 | Semiotics has conventionally spoken in terms of a tripartite model of signifier , signified , and referent , in which the signifier is often a word or statement , the signified is a concept or a thought , and the referent an object in the real world to which both signifier and signified connect . |
| 27 | He is indeed an international figure and is respected so and he 's one of the few people to have actually addressed the Security Council on the question of apartheid and has indeed spoken at many United Nations conventions on the question of apartheid . |
| 28 | Her adopted father , Arthur Harrison , also of North Green , Staindrop , has been keeping a vigil for the daughter he has barely spoken to since she was 17 . |
| 29 | In my knowledge he has never spoken to us about this business . |
| 30 | It could n't be Dr Kent ; she hardly knew him , she 'd only spoken to him three times , and then briefly . |