spoken of earlier

Example Sentences

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A spokeswoman said these exams were separate from the “processes” that Mr. Fairfax had spoken of earlier.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2019

One by one the women were taken through the door that Afi had spoken of earlier.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

Something made Ruth sure it was the mother who had been spoken of earlier in the evening as having come all the way from Texas and arrived too late to bid her boy good-bye.

From The Search by Hill, Grace Livingston

“Well, at supper yesterday evening Mr. Tristram began to talk to me on the very same subject as my cousin, Lady Lysle, had spoken of earlier in the day.”

From The School Queens by Meade, L. T.