Example sentences of "have talked " in BNC.

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1 You could have talked to her , he said , you could have explained .
2 He should have talked to them as reasonable people , not shouted at them . ’
3 ‘ You must have talked to her family ? ’
4 ‘ She 'd have talked him round , surely ? ’
5 They must have talked long and hard about their future , and from now on Helen believed that other people would probably regard them as being ‘ engaged ’ — a term she hated because of the overtones of male dominance and female sexual ignorance that went with it .
6 Next week , she would have talked it through with three or four different people .
7 Had he been quite sober I 'm sure he would n't have talked so much . ’
8 And it 's rather a good thing this one did look like a tramp , ’ she added , ‘ because you might not have talked to him if you had n't mistaken him for a poor old man , and he would n't have learned anything about Brownies , and we should n't be going to continue to enjoy the use of his lovely Park .
9 I felt that I should have talked about Habeas Corpus , intellectual liberty and social security .
10 ‘ After being left in the lurch like that , she 'd probably have talked . ’
11 It is possible , too , that one or two of the people overseeing the survey may occasionally have talked to real teachers about the project 's objectives and methods .
12 It is possible , too , that one or two of the people overseeing the survey may occasionally have talked to real teachers about the project 's objectives and methods .
13 He ca n't have talked to them for long , as soon as he saw me coming he cleared off quick .
14 This , he agreed , would have been his first move had such a case landed on his desk , and he would have talked , too , to the local health visitor .
15 Next , he said , he would have talked to the schools .
16 Sometimes she would use them on a Sunday morning and I would say : ‘ Well , you ca n't have talked to that many people in Beccles since last night . ’
17 Certainly it is true that we can not expect that writers in Palestine thousands of years ago would have talked about sicknesses in the jargon of medical aetiology .
18 ‘ We should have talked to them , Gurder , ’ said Masklin .
19 Dalgliesh knew that no politician would have talked with such freedom unless he had had absolute confidence in his listener 's discretion .
20 If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now .
21 The membership showed no interest in doing business that way , but would have talked if SCO had had a product .
22 Otherwise , Adam would never have talked about leaving Wickrithe .
23 ‘ Could n't you have talked your way out of trouble like most people with any sense ? ’
24 You have heard of him — they must have talked about him .
25 Otto must have talked to me for hours that day .
26 ‘ I wish you could have talked about this when we had more time , Adam . ’
27 The only one who might have talked was Cousin Saul — and he 's dead and gone , too . ’
28 If it was n't for him , I 'd have talked Dimitri round .
29 We went to the theatre and to dinner and I believe I must have talked and , as I have said , I know I sometimes laughed and I think no one ever knew that I was empty of everything except perhaps madness .
30 Syl had left and Robert gone to bed and the old school friends were talking as they must have talked in their manless dormitory : my mother careful , Lili dashing .
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