Example sentences of "[pron] have just been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 4 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news . |
| 6 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
| 7 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone . |
| 11 | I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it . |
| 14 | Catching her arm , he said quietly , ‘ I 've just been talking to Donal . ’ |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her . |
| 18 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 19 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 20 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 21 | As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound . |
| 22 | So it will help to keep your Bible open at the passage which has just been read to us , from the ninth chapter of the gospel according to Matthew . |
| 23 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 24 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 25 | " Take the Tran family over there who 've just been introduced to your father , for instance . |
| 26 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 27 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 28 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 29 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 30 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |