Sentence examples for had spoken for from inspiring English sources

He had spoken for eight hours.

Sumner beseeched Lincoln with one final request — if no one had spoken for it, would the president send him the pen used to sign the decree.

(Republicans kept track of the dialogue; at the end of the day, they said Mr. Obama had spoken for 119 minutes, Democrats 114 and Republicans 110).

"Tell me," one of the senior officials traveling with Mr. Rouhani asked a journalist on Thursday evening, after the president had spoken for an hour and a half.

"I made outcries to everyone, and no one listened," she said, declining to say to whom she had spoken for fear of losing Army benefits.

By the time the lecture ended, he had spoken for four hours, without a break, in numbing cold — and the crowd was rapt.

Adoptive parents have spoken for adoptees' feelings.

But the results have spoken for themselves.

Clegg says David Steel has spoken for himself.

Merkel was twice reprimanded for having spoken for too long.

These constituencies have spoken for England in the past.