Example sentences of "been talking [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick Harris has been talking with the Oxford United manager , Brian Horton . |
| 2 | ‘ During the last few weeks , we have , therefore , been talking to the board of the Bank of Edinburgh about a number of options which might reduce the protracted time-scales that affected the proposal . |
| 3 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
| 4 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 5 | But I 've just been talking to the head there and he said you know that you know the tor tutorial programme , Mrs started it all erm |
| 6 | I have been talking to the leaders in Medicine and Education and clearly there are many areas where we can and will be working together in telling the Government that they must support us in supplying quality services and that the Treasury is a support service , not the determinant of policy . |
| 7 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 8 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been talking to the girls ? ’ |
| 10 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 11 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 12 | You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening . |
| 13 | and er , when we got them printed , before we even sent them off , there were one , somebody , I 've been talking to the father in , in the father of the bridge |
| 14 | All the time Ward had been talking to the receptionist his head had been half turned to the street doors , which were wide open , framing an incessant movement of people in an iridescent haze of hot sunlight . |
| 15 | I know the mental health on th on the health service side are facing the same problems and I was wondering to what extent the director had been talking to the District Health Authority on , on those lines . |
| 16 | We have been talking to the horse , stroking it , and trying to reassure it . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been talking of the mistress , and her strange behaviour , shepherd , ’ said the maltster . |
| 18 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 19 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 20 | ‘ Miss Russell and I have been talking over the past . ’ |
| 21 | So far we have been talking about the flow of information from the company , but It can be equally important for management to receive information on how the world is thinking about the company and its activities , about rival companies and about the industry in which it operates . |
| 22 | Hope smiled to himself : the smile broadened , and to disguise his true feelings he turned the smile on Mr Crump ; who was greatly encouraged as he had been talking about the slave trade on which much of his father 's great founding fortune had been based . |
| 23 | He was not sure that Jehan had been talking about the arrows , and remembering that Jehan was Burun 's grandson he wondered how much he knew , or had been told , about the plan to obtain Sidacai 's freedom . |
| 24 | Yet it was from Samsova , says Cohan , that the idea for A Midsummer Night 's Dream originally came : ‘ We had been talking about the company doing Forrest , one of my earlier works , when Galina mentioned The Dream . |
| 25 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 26 | On our side it 's , you know , do n't believe everything , anything , sorry not everything but anything you read in the papers , and yet , at the same time , every national newspaper on a Saturday night at about eleven-thirty gets a phone , series of phone-calls all saying , ‘ Please settle this argument for us we just been talking about the winner of the F A Cup Final in nineteen forty-three ’ or something , and that , you know , and , so we 've got the public out there saying ‘ Do n't believe what you read in the newspapers ’ yet , ‘ Settle our arguments . ’ |
| 27 | The RAF crews who are flying aid into Bosnia have been talking about the dangers they face . |
| 28 | Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth . |
| 29 | Well we 've been talking about the benefits which the local firms obviously gain from the work that 's going on here , but the question could be asked , what benefit do the academics in the University and also the students gain from the , the programme ? |
| 30 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |