Example sentences of "[verb] [be] talk [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sun Microsystems Inc president , Scott McNealy , has been talking to and having lunch with Ray Noorda lately , chewing over what 's to become of Unix System Labs under Novell Inc . |
| 32 | Following on from last month , It seems that GeoWorks has been talking to Casio and Tandy about putting its graphical front-end on hand-held computers , slated to compete with the so-far non-existent Apple Newton . |
| 33 | Childrens World marketing communications controller John Forester says he has been talking to agencies with the knowledge of the incumbent GGT and insists there is no review of the Sears-owned business . |
| 34 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 35 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 36 | DAVID WALMSLEY has been talking to Ulster 's faces of the future . |
| 37 | At present some think it weak-kneed through lack of characters but Brian , speaking to us in the Belfry , has been talking to possible sponsors . |
| 38 | Frank Strandli has been talking to Howard Wilkinson about his future at Elland Road . |
| 39 | ‘ I can see that your uncle has been talking to you about us , ’ Sophie said drily , ‘ but you do n't understand . |
| 40 | Neil MacDonald whose out from Oxford to visit Chile , has been talking to them and his reaction to their plight was direct . |
| 41 | Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits . |
| 42 | Rebecca Marston has been talking to Ken Schwarz , Director of Development at the company who 've published the figures on executives pay . |
| 43 | The Home Secretary has been talking to Peter Murphy about the siege and the efforts to end it . |
| 44 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
| 45 | Just before the start of this extract , Brenda has been talking with her friends about an incident at a party . |
| 46 | Nick has been talking with manager Brian Horton and we 'll be bringing you that interview as soon as we can . |
| 47 | Nick Harris has been talking with the Oxford United manager , Brian Horton . |
| 48 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 49 | The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened . |
| 50 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 51 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 52 | A front panel has been talked about but nothing practical has been mentioned . |
| 53 | A great deal of rubbish has been talked about the seasoning of timber by craftsmen and by romantic but ignorant amateurs . |
| 54 | A link with the literary house Meulenhoff Nederland is one of the possibilities that has been talked about in the Dutch trade . |
| 55 | She has also worked the other way round , turning The Stand-In into a screenplay ; a film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Anjelica Huston has been talked about — though talk , in Hollywood is not a very reliable omen . |
| 56 | We also desperately need to install a safe and economical heating system — this has been talked about for too many years . |
| 57 | If the single European market can be established and made to work as that common market that has been talked about for the past 30 years , it will be a considerable achievement , but it will not be easy . |
| 58 | The new TV channel that has been talked about for a while will be named ‘ The Manchester United channel ’ and will outbid the BBC for the right to be channel no.1 and will have a completely unbiased opinion of football ( just like the BBC ) |
| 59 | The idea of bringing the elderly , disabled and mentally ill out of institutions to live independently in the community has been talked about for almost forty years . |
| 60 | We 're talking about this partly because of the document passed in the ministry in which , everybody has avidly read and erm has been talked about after the seventeenth er , in York in July . |