Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Microsoft Corp has been talking a little more about its planned Cairo — now called Windows Cairo — object-oriented operating system , and far from being a distant prospect , it looks as if it will come hard on the heels of Windows NT , with a professional developers ' kit available as soon as early next year according to the late Systems & Network Integration . |
| 2 | As detectives continue their hunt for the man , a woman who counsels rape victims in Hereford has been talking about the crime : |
| 3 | Victoria has been talking , has n't she ? |
| 4 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Strange voices had been talking inside her head forever . |
| 7 | Labour have been talking Britain down so hard , relishing every piece of bad news , rubbing their hands at any failure in public services , that they have chosen to forget what a great country Britain really is , ’ said the broadcast . |
| 8 | interest tax relief , it 's M I D A S right , so let's not start talking about the benefit of public sector housing and to show the financial illiteracy of of of what 's actually been proposed if you understand the government regulation about the ring fencing o of of of the housing revenue account and and the way in which housing benefit is now having to be subsidised by those other council house tenants then what 's actually going to happen when your poor people inhabit those houses , those public sector houses and they need the housing benefit that David 's been talking about . |
| 9 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |
| 12 | Just before the start of this extract , Brenda has been talking with her friends about an incident at a party . |
| 13 | An eighty five year old man who was beaten up and robbed at knifepoint at his home has been talking about his ordeal . |
| 14 | We guessed , wrongly , that Frank had been talking back home . |
| 15 | She wished that she could ask David what Anthony had been talking about , but she obviously could not . |
| 16 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 17 | Speaker B had been talking about the radio she had in the 1930s and speaker A's first line here seems to continue within the temporal , locational and personal indices of the existing topic framework while introducing telephones . |
| 18 | GMB union official Mary Kenny said today ‘ Management have been talking about measures like pay cuts but we never expected anything like this . |
| 19 | Jane 's been talking to Paul about it and he 's being very non committal because of this Y T S T M review |
| 20 | For weeks Downing Street has been talking about bringing Mr Major and Mr Clinton together when the premier travels to the States to take part in US-EC summit . |
| 21 | Hitachi has been talking about a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ using the RISC for a couple of years now , but is using a Sparc front-end for OSF/1 Unix on its existing mainframes ( CI No 2,144 ) . |
| 22 | Well I 'd like to go back to the sorts of things that Barbara Bryant has been talking about . |
| 23 | Frank Strandli has been talking to Howard Wilkinson about his future at Elland Road . |
| 24 | One of the guests had been talking about him . |
| 25 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 26 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ The squire 's been talking . ’ |
| 29 | Alright , and I 'll talk about , well , the lesson finishes at twelve , so if you have about a quarter of an hour , twenty minutes on that , then what I want each group to have someone who will report back on what the group 's been talking about in the next twenty minutes or so . |
| 30 | Mama 's been talking of sugar beet . ’ |