Example sentences of "[pers pn] spoke of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helps you understand other people 's tasks , avoid problems and keep in mind that crucial overview I spoke of earlier . |
| 2 | ‘ I spoke of what is ordinarily called morality . |
| 3 | That , which I spoke of just now , gathers us . |
| 4 | ‘ My word , what interest I kindled when I spoke of the hospital at Christmas . |
| 5 | I spoke of the matter to Sir Thomas Vaughan , he being of like age to my lord and a close friend from boyhood , ’ Elizabeth Mowbray told her . |
| 6 | The Moroccan women I spoke of earlier had a means of giving it some expression . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I spoke of the reality of your position , and I would like now to expand on that reality . ’ |
| 9 | Others have done so , in writing , but not I. I spoke of the ‘ regrettable similarity ’ between a 1989 work by Parmiggiani and Kosuth 's installation at the 1992 Documenta ( Il Giornale dell' Arte No. 103 , September 1992 , pp. 1,8 ) . |
| 10 | I spoke of the need to organize , that an individual alone can not change things . |
| 11 | I spoke of possible happiness . |
| 12 | ‘ The little matter I spoke of , sire . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When I spoke of your circumstances , it was only in the belief that I might understand your plight . |
| 14 | I wish that the Minister would respond to a point that I made in a debate last week when I spoke of the tragedy that the employment advisory service — available to prisoners both before and after their release — had been withdrawn by the Government . |
| 15 | ‘ He follows the one I spoke of . |
| 16 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's why I spoke of … management . ’ |
| 18 | These differences come about because of changes ( mutations — this is the small random element in the process that I spoke of ) in the genes controlling development . |
| 19 | I spoke of fate — surely if you listen to your heart , you will see that she has plans for us that go far beyond the merging of our two practices . ’ |
| 20 | Is this , then , the rescue that I spoke of ? |
| 21 | In 1983 she spoke of the general election providing a ‘ choice ’ between two ways of life ; before the 1987 election she spoke of the election as the opportunity to ‘ kill off ’ left-wing socialism . |
| 22 | In 1983 she spoke of the general election providing a ‘ choice ’ between two ways of life ; before the 1987 election she spoke of the election as the opportunity to ‘ kill off ’ left-wing socialism . |
| 23 | She spoke of the pain in her hands , neighbours who had passed on , and twice asked Mungo what school he was going to now . |
| 24 | Mrs Olive Davis , 47 , was walking home with her husband , Joe , 59 , when they saw the crash and she spoke of how Mr Swales died in her arms . |
| 25 | She spoke of her with a feeling of pity and horror difficult to understand — until one recollected that ‘ B ’ block , now modernized and comfortable , had been part of the old Workhouse building . |
| 26 | She spoke of many teenagers being involved with this witch . |
| 27 | She spoke of tears at times until they got it right but accepted the suffering as he had no favourites and called them all his ‘ dolly girls ’ . |
| 28 | This time she spoke of a different ‘ they ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ And she spoke of the unicorn being in the forest , but that , I think , was by accident . |
| 30 | Once , she spoke of the day of the bombardment . |