Example sentences of "[noun prp] spoke of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking on his return to Seoul on Oct. 25 , Chung Won Shik spoke of a " small breakthrough " and " a sort of success " , but officials stressed that there would be " acute " problems in achieving a final agreement . |
| 2 | The man who flew the hostages out , Virgin Chairman Richard Branson spoke of the human misery at the airport . |
| 3 | Teodor spoke of shooting ( ‘ quite the favourite of his , ’ Sophie explained ) . |
| 4 | Thirty years later , recalling the revelation of tribal art , Picasso spoke of the Demoiselles as his ‘ first exorcism picture ’ : ‘ For me the masks were not simply sculptures , they were magical objects … |
| 5 | President Mitterrand spoke of his ‘ respect ’ for her arguments , Chancellor Kohl said she had ‘ not refused her co-operation ’ , and Mr Haughey said she had ‘ participated fully ’ . |
| 6 | Miklós spoke of these matters dispassionately , any hint of feeling only emerging as scorn for the communist establishment . |
| 7 | ‘ When Freud spoke of civilization ’ , Smith writes , ‘ he had in mind the process of ‘ modernization ’ and the characteristics of urban life in the industrial capitalist cities of his own time' . |
| 8 | Keynes spoke of a ‘ financial Dunkirk ’ . |
| 9 | Lord Hailsham spoke of elective dictatorship . |
| 10 | Next day Wilfrid spoke of his disquiet to an old friend , Dick Thompson , the Registrar of Criminal Appeals , and he , having read the book , felt a similar concern . |
| 11 | And Spencer spoke of the ability to understand an experience with the wisdom of a child plus the older experience of later years . |
| 12 | Mr Cotgrave spoke of the increased demands placed on police officers . |
| 13 | Furthermore , in their returns to the research team , administrators in some LEAs spoke of 5 per cent as their target population for statements , while elsewhere it was considered that as many as 18 per cent could require a statement . |
| 14 | Mr Paisley spoke of the ‘ deep revulsion ’ over the hospital bombing and said internment should be a weapon in the armoury of any civilised country . |
| 15 | Lucy spoke of her life , Jay wanted to hold her and hug the hurt away . |
| 16 | ‘ And I am still your maid , ’ McAllister had said gaily to him , but , of course , she was now less and less of a maid and more a member of the family , working side by side with Matey in cheerful equality , living and playing with them in the evening , and when Dr Neil spoke of the wedding day again she said that she must write to her uncle at least , before anything could be arranged , and let him think that she had done so . |
| 17 | Pierre Naville , for instance , enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world as ‘ automatic writing ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 99 ) . |
| 18 | Thus Naville enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world itself as ‘ automatic writing ’ . |
| 19 | Further , surrealist allegory for Benjamin is a method in which these figural signifiers are taken from ‘ the petrified and insignificant ’ , from what Breton spoke of as the ‘ dresses of five years ago ’ ( Sontag 1979 , p. 26 ) . |
| 20 | Ramsey spoke of eternal life . |
| 21 | It started off badly — in April 1940 Norman Birkett spoke of ‘ gross mistakes and pathological stupidities in connexion with its internment policy ( p. 39 ) — but it got better . |
| 22 | BICC spoke of employing headhunters when looking for ‘ rare birds ’ for specialised jobs as ‘ horses for courses ’ . |
| 23 | Simon and Nigel spoke of the history of their branch . |
| 24 | Professor Rees spoke of the close relationship between academia and industry and stressed the need for this relationship to continue . |
| 25 | THE ORPHAN smuggled out of war-torn Bosnia by TV newsman Michael Nicholson spoke of her first days at a British school yesterday and declared : ‘ It is good . ’ |
| 26 | Richard de Bury spoke of its ‘ academic meadows shaken by the tramp of scholars ’ . |
| 27 | The Home Office pathologist , Dr Alan spoke of forty two injuries to James 's body . |
| 28 | When Thucydides spoke of the allies who urged Sparta to go to war , he was thinking of Corinth above all . |
| 29 | In March 1931 , Sir john Simon spoke of socialism as ‘ a poisonous doctrine ’ and declared that he would not close his mind to tariffs as a method of dealing with the economic crisis . |
| 30 | Yesterday , as Paul McCormack , 23 , of Meeks Road , Falkirk , was jailed for a year at the High Court in Edinburgh when he admitted culpably and recklessly throwing the trolleys on to the line from the bridge in the town 's Hope Street on 13 April last year , Graeme spoke of the moment he knew he had to act . |