1.   The speaker made some prefatory remarks.

2.   The speaker made eye contact with audience members.

3.   Punctuation has sometimes been used to imitate the pauses a speaker might make if reading a sentence aloud, and commas often keep something of this function still.

4.   In this case, the speaker made the wrong choice and produced a form which is neither LE nor JC, though the target was certainly JC.

5.   For instance, every speaker must make a decision about what to make explicit and what to leave implicit.

6.   It seems clear that studying intonation in relation to discourse makes it possible to explain much more comprehensively the uses that speakers make of intonation.

7.   At another campaign stop in San Luis Potosi, three speakers made a litany of requests.

8.   At one level, the speaker is making a conscious decision to pull himself away from debates over details and focus on the bigger picture.

9.   A second Microsoft selling point is that the speakers make it unnecessary to own a sound card to listen to music and other audio.

10.   A spokesman for Collins, Chuck Leitgeb, said that the speaker made no such threats.