Example sentences of "spoke of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke of a well-off socialist he knew at college ; what irked him was not the socialist views , some of which he agreed with , but the fact that here was a wealthy socialist telling working people what they should think . |
| 2 | ‘ You spoke of a moral landscape for murder , ’ she said , ‘ Could you expand on that for us ? ’ |
| 3 | But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free . |
| 4 | In a letter to my wife I spoke of a whole-day conference about the future of Judson College , in which I pressed the representatives of the American Baptist Mission to make Judson into an ecumenical college and to be ready to be integrated into a University unitary system . |
| 5 | You spoke of a brilliant structure , |
| 6 | In Manila and New Delhi , demonstrators burned effigies of Uncle Sam and President Bush , while Arab commentators spoke of a new crusade by the West against the Islamic world . |
| 7 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 8 | Jokes were thin on the ground but when Mr Lamont spoke of a new form of do-it-yourself income tax form for the self employed one MP raised a titter when he shouted : ‘ At least that 'll suit one person — John Birt ( the BBC director general ) ’ . |
| 9 | Before going into the meeting the Irish team spoke of a good deal of hope for peace and the Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew said all options remained open . |
| 10 | Thoreau told of rising early and when his neighbours woke to mist and rain , he spoke of a clear sunrise . |
| 11 | Reports in the papers the following day spoke of a naked man going berserk on the street and being struck by a car . |
| 12 | Neighbours spoke of a quiet man who spent most of his spare time working for charity . |
| 13 | Keeping especially useful people — Shaw spoke of an outstanding taxation specialist employed by Cadbury Schweppes — is seen as a challenge rather than a difficulty . |
| 14 | Akram Khan-Cheema , speaking for the Directorate of Educational Services , City of Bradford Metropolitan Council , spoke of an increasing workload for those teachers who were engaged in promoting community languages against a background of confusion regarding strategies , objectives and methods . |
| 15 | The patter that passed between them spoke of an easy familiarity , and was so fast and allusive that I could hardly follow it . |
| 16 | Kepler , too , spoke of an enhanced status for the earth : At last it enjoyed legal citizenship in the heavens . |