Example sentences of "[verb] been talking [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compaq , meanwhile , has been talking down its ACE role ever since Rod Canion left the bridge . |
| 2 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 3 | Billy Johnson ( ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ , 3 April , page 23 ) may have been ‘ fond of saying ’ that if they had n't induced his birth a day early he could have voted in the 1997 election , but then he would have been talking even more crap than the verbals Steve Platt so kindly recorded for us . |
| 4 | And almost immediately Stratton had been talking freely … |
| 5 | Franca , Moxie , Dr Hensman and Father O'Harte , who had been talking softly in the front room , had now returned to the back room where the curtains had been drawn against the sun . |
| 6 | We guessed , wrongly , that Frank had been talking back home . |
| 7 | She had been talking very fast , as though it made her impatient to explain . |
| 8 | Miguel had been watching her , and she realised that she had been talking far too freely , and that she could n't see what he was thinking because of those dark glasses . |
| 9 | A couple of hours later , when he had been talking non-stop on the telephone , she was sitting in a chair half asleep . |
| 10 | On a course recently someone suggested I had been talking too much and should be told to keep quiet . |
| 11 | She was fleetingly reminded of Shildon insisting they walked singly into the newsroom so no one should know they had been talking together . |
| 12 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 13 | He was not hurrying , but his attitude suggested he thought Anna and Seb had been talking together for quite long enough . |
| 14 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been talking so much , it 's foolish that we do n't even know each other 's names . ’ |
| 16 | Uniforum and the small Unix Reseller Show , held last week in Dallas to credible reviews , have been talking lately about making Unix Reseller part of Uniforum , an altogether sensible idea . |
| 17 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 18 | Some Opposition Members have been talking down the region . |
| 19 | I have been talking only about directors who own their own company but the concept of restricting earnings can often be profitably applied to other employees . |
| 20 | I mean I I 'd love to see the the whole history and that 's why I 'm glad that erm you people are taking an interest now in not helping us but some day somebody saying who 's that crank who 's been talking on there . |
| 21 | He 's been talking again about the possibility of dialysis . ’ |