Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [been] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations with America are on the mend after months in which the two countries had been arguing about the fate of nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil . |
| 2 | One of the guests had been talking about him . |
| 3 | This is what some of our customers have been saying about environmental Service staff recently : |
| 4 | And today staff and patients have been talking about their victory over the health service bureaucrats : |
| 5 | Women GPs have been complaining about the breast screening programmes . |
| 6 | The woods were extensive and the two men had been walking about the property for over an hour . |
| 7 | Alright , so there 's this interest in what women talk about when they 're by themselves and when Martha comes down , she wants to know what the men have been talking about as well . |
| 8 | Gardeners have been arguing about this for years , so I hope we can clear the matter up now once and for all . |
| 9 | Jim McCarron , the committee chairman , said yesterday that Dr Forwell 's report underlined what politicians had been saying about Glasgow 's health record for a long time . |
| 10 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |