Example sentences of "he speak of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The composer 's liveliness and wit impressed him and , not least , his enthusiasm ( unsuspected by Nietzsche ) for Schopenhauer : " You will understand how much I enjoyed hearing him speak of Schopenhauer with indescribable warmth , what he owed to him , how he is the only philosopher who has understood the essence of music . " |
| 2 | ‘ I have never heard him speak of politics . ’ |
| 3 | Rush knows the dangers of taking things for granted , and last term 's experience makes him speak of hopes rather than expectations , refusing to make predictions . |
| 4 | Those close to him speak of his warmth and kindness . |
| 5 | ‘ You were a soldier , ’ I said , not as a question , but as a straight assertion of fact , for almost everything about him spoke of the military . |
| 6 | The letters appointing him spoke of the ‘ dissensions recently arisen ’ in the duchy of Aquitaine where he was to act ‘ to pacify the said land ’ ( circa stabilimentum terre predicte ) , thereby incurring additional expenses ( which were to be recom-pensed ) at the Paris parlement and in the duchy itself . |
| 7 | It would be impossible for him to speak of their past , or of her , without seeming vulgarly proprietary ; or of Jim , without seeming barbed ; or of Sam ; or even of work . |
| 8 | He makes a great deal , as we have seen , of the gift of the Holy Spirit to Jesus : but only once in the ministry does he speak of the disciples having the Spirit . |
| 9 | Did he speak of a recent row or of serious friction with anyone ? ’ |
| 10 | How dared he speak of her dead cousin in that scathing voice ? |
| 11 | The only thing was they were n't white to harvest , they were n't even ready , the crop had not fully grown , and yet Jesus says it 's white , all ready to harvest , what is he speaking of ? |
| 12 | Not once had he spoken of his love for her , or said that he could wait for her too . |
| 13 | He speaks of them with enthusiasm , and he lends them with abandon . |
| 14 | But on the next page he speaks of ‘ that swine Shatov ’ . |
| 15 | He had grown accustomed , even in the work of supposedly enlightened anthropologists , to terms such as ‘ savage ’ , ‘ lower races ’ , and ‘ inferior races ’ , so that when he speaks of ‘ inequality ’ , he may well be thinking of a vertical model , though he may mean simply ‘ difference ’ when he writes that |
| 16 | He exaggerates when he speaks of a ‘ deafening silence , from historians on the land question , but he makes a strong case for placing the land issue near the centre of any sound historical analysis of the period . |
| 17 | This piece of advice might suggest that his grasp of the ‘ new psychology ’ was still at the rudimentary stage , since he speaks of a neurosis as if it were something avoidable . |
| 18 | The ‘ it ’ which he speaks of suppressing is the Oxford Group Movement formed by Frank Buchman and later known as Moral Rearmament . |
| 19 | He has taken to disrupting romantic trysts in the village by pouring glue into the hair of those girls who step out with soldiers ; his motive being to encourage the largest possible number of servicemen to attend his lectures , where he speaks of the mysteries of the countryside . |
| 20 | But when he speaks of ‘ causes ’ he means , he says , either ‘ efficient causes ’ ( which produce , or bring effects and appearances about ) or , in the case of what he calls ‘ entire causes ’ ( the combination of causes and their effects ) , a combination of efficient and material causes . |
| 21 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 22 | He speaks of one of the ‘ largest and compleatest works in the kingdom for making iron and steel wire ’ , much of which found its way around the county in the form of ‘ cards ’ for the woollen industry . |
| 23 | He speaks of Cheltenham as being ‘ a nasty , ill-looking place , half clown and half cockney ’ , and of being ‘ one street about a mile long ’ . |
| 24 | Little Em'ly becomes one of his apprentices , and after the elopement he speaks of her with sympathy and understanding . |
| 25 | He speaks of the Logos made flesh . |
| 26 | The small percentage of jobs he speaks of being created are all highly skilled , whereas the majority of the unemployed are untrained , unskilled and have not the qualifications for further training . |
| 27 | The small percentage of jobs he speaks of being created are all highly skilled , whereas the majority of the unemployed are untrained , unskilled , and have not the qualifications for further training . |
| 28 | Roger Duvoisin ( 1965 , p.25 ) extends this idea when he speaks of the well-designed page . |
| 29 | The question that arises here is whether Gandhi is referring to an ‘ essence ’ or ‘ primordial element ’ when he speaks of the heart of one religion being identical with the heart of another religion . |
| 30 | As we have seen , Gandhi recognizes that no single religion can embody the whole truth , and that all particular religions contain errors since they are human constructs or formulations , but does it follow necessarily that when he speaks of Religion underlying all human constructs , or at the heart of all religions , he is referring to an ‘ essence ’ of an ‘ entity ’ or a ‘ primordial form ’ of religion after the fashion of Schleiermacher ? |