Example sentences of "[verb] been talking [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , commenting on the Labour leadership election , claims that ‘ The only one who has been talking sense is John Prescott . |
| 2 | He 'd been talking shit . |
| 3 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir , you 've been talking nonsense to make me talk nonsense . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We have been talking apples — the rights and concerns of women — while they have been talking oranges — the rights and concerns of fetuses . |
| 7 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |
| 8 | We have been talking apples — the rights and concerns of women — while they have been talking oranges — the rights and concerns of fetuses . |
| 9 | If characters who have the ability to speak either prose or verse have been talking prose among themselves , or if the medium is prose for some other reason , the entry of a person of rank or status can be the signal for the move to the higher level . |