Example sentences of "[verb] been talking about " in BNC.
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1 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
2 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ The only difference is that in Rome everybody has been talking about this game for three months . |
5 | Usually , the former has been talking about the latter . |
6 | 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 ) . |
7 | That looks pricey , missing both the personal computer and sub-$5,000 price points the company has been talking about , even if it does offer more floating point performance than Intel Corp 's high-end 486DX-50 chip . |
8 | As detectives continue their hunt for the man , a woman who counsels rape victims in Hereford has been talking about the crime : |
9 | An eighty five year old man who was beaten up and robbed at knifepoint at his home has been talking about his ordeal . |
10 | A mother of triplets , who almost had one of her babies snatched by a bogus health worker , has been talking about her ordeal . |
11 | The victim of a vicious assault has been talking about the attack which left him unconscious and with a broken jaw . |
12 | A man whose house was twice hit by lightning in a fortnight has been talking about the experience , which bookmakers say is a two-billion-to one-chance … |
13 | A sixty seven year old woman who was raped as she returned home from church on Christmas day has been talking about her horrifying ordeal . |
14 | THE Duchess of York has been talking about her new job roving UN ambassador to express the plight of refugees . |
15 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs yeah Shrimp , you got good English ! |
16 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs . |
17 | Well I 'd like to go back to the sorts of things that Barbara Bryant has been talking about . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | ‘ No , he 'd been talking about it . |
22 | Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about . |
23 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
24 | ‘ We 'd been talking about getting married for quite a while , ’ said Nicky . |
25 | I said to I said cos he 'd they 'd been talking about me . |
26 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
27 | 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 ? |
28 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |
29 | Five years ago at such a gathering everyone would probably have been talking about property , or inside deals , between bitching about colleagues . |
30 | She seemed so angry that she could have been talking about hate , or revenge , or death , rather than love . |