Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] could speak [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was strange not being able to communicate but someone who could speak English was always on hand to translate and often all I needed were those wonderful smiles and greetings from people . |
2 | You 'd think they 'd have the wit to send someone who could speak English . |
3 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |
4 | The Ashes summer of ‘ 89 saw almost everyone who could speak English getting a game . |
5 | Mr Zamoyski was not entirely fluent in his adopted language , and there must be few people locally , other than his wife perhaps , with whom he could speak Polish . |