Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been [v-ing] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 2 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 3 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 4 | — Anyway , he must have been lying about Mr Bishop . |
| 5 | From the way he said it , he might have been talking about Krull of Varna . |
| 6 | He could have been writing about van Gogh . |
| 7 | Had he lived , we could have been talking about Field Marshal Bradford in World War Two . ’ |
| 8 | She seemed so angry that she could have been talking about hate , or revenge , or death , rather than love . |
| 9 | He could have been talking about Ken Mentle . |