Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] about [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 2 | He should n't have been thinking about things like that at his age ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Gran had been muttering about storms for days and she liked her to stay close at these times . |
| 5 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 6 | ‘ And I 've been thinking about guns , ’ said Juliet . |
| 7 | I 've been thinking about humans a lot . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been thinking about dragons all my life , but this is the first time one has turned up . ’ |
| 9 | You 've been raving about galleons and sea creatures . ’ |
| 10 | It 's pretty big too because we 've been talking about women . |
| 11 | we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil ! |
| 12 | From what you fella 's have been saying about speeds form , he should be the man to drop . |
| 13 | I have been talking about experiences which affect both men and women ; what I am suggesting is that the role of the Weaving Mother is to spin a thread , a bond , from the ‘ raw material ’ proffered by the male . |
| 14 | Sometimes in this chapter we have been talking about processes , sometimes about artists . |
| 15 | In all of these discussions we have been talking about lifeforms as physical entities — creatures who , like ourselves , have bodies . |
| 16 | We have been talking about electrons but obviously exactly similar considerations of indistinguishability apply to all kinds of identical particles in the quantum world . |
| 17 | GMB union official Mary Kenny said today ‘ Management have been talking about measures like pay cuts but we never expected anything like this . |