Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 91 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 92 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 93 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 94 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 95 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 96 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 97 | I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it |
| 98 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 99 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 100 | You have been talking about what we will be doing with it . |
| 101 | Cos every time I turn around yeah cos you two always sort of w looking at me and whispering and , you know , m half the time you have been talking about me cos I 've heard you mention my name and it 's not very nice . |
| 102 | She 's been talking about it for ye the past year . |
| 103 | ‘ She 's been talking to you about me then ? ’ |
| 104 | ‘ She upset her hosts by her grumpy behaviour in Korea and we believe she 's been talking to Morton 's people again . |
| 105 | you can guarantee it she goes to shops about eleven o'clock , she do n't come back till one because she 's been talking on shops , that 's her routine you know ? |
| 106 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 107 | is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death . |
| 108 | ‘ We 'd been talking about getting married for quite a while , ’ said Nicky . |
| 109 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 110 | They knew we 'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us . |
| 111 | Well let's think for just a moment , you know , we 've been talking over these last three or four weeks about faith and that , erm , let's just think , perhaps and we should have done this sooner , but I du n no , it it fits in th this morning , er perhaps just what , what faith is . |
| 112 | ‘ We 've been talking of the mistress , and her strange behaviour , shepherd , ’ said the maltster . |
| 113 | We 've been talking to cinemas in London and will bring it over there soon . ’ |
| 114 | ‘ We 've been talking to Jane Pargeter . ’ |
| 115 | We 've been talking to Michael Medleycote from the British Tourist Authority , and one of the points I was making to him was with the recession and also the Gulf war people are very concerned , a ) there 's the cost of flying , but also they 're concerned of course about security . |
| 116 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 117 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 118 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 119 | Cos we 've been talking at least there . |
| 120 | Do you want the rest of the world to say the British are so aggressive that they need the sort of controls we 've been talking about ? |