Sentence examples for been speaking in a from inspiring English sources

On the phone, Welch, who had been speaking in a businesslike patter all morning, sounded cajoling, almost motherly.

I noticed it instantly — as though everyone had been speaking in a foreign accent and now suddenly switched to my own.

Up to that point near the middle of the play he had been speaking in a flat monotone, so much so that I kept thinking, "Why is this guy supposed to be so great?" Then, on that line, he simply exploded on the second syllable of the word "elsewhere" — and from that point was essentially a screaming maniac.

By now, even though I had been speaking in a low voice and keeping my head down like a cringing cur, it was clear that I had been branded by my immediate fellow-passengers as a public nuisance, if not a suspicious character.

Lord Tebbit, whose wife was paralysed in the Brighton bombing, had been speaking in a home affairs debate which was wound up by Ann Widdecombe, who renewed her place in the affections of the Tory faithful with a virtuoso performance delivered without notes, and without podium, which she had removed before the start of her speech.

William: Death will 'make or break you' Jump to media player Prince William has been speaking in a new BBC documentary about the death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.

In a previous time, that statement would have been spoken in a whisper to evade censure.

Dad was speaking in a loud voice.

He is speaking in a soft, seductive voice.

McCluskey was speaking in a a debate on the economy.

Hughes said he was speaking in a personal capacity.