Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] talking " in BNC.

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1 No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars
2 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 .
3 ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’
4 He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly :
5 He might have been talking about weekending on the moon .
6 ‘ Tom might have been talking in jest a while back , but there 's nothing to say you wo n't have another family between the two of you .
7 From the way he said it , he might have been talking about Krull of Varna .
8 But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said .
9 Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton .
10 She seemed so angry that she could have been talking about hate , or revenge , or death , rather than love .
11 He could have been talking about Ken Mentle .
12 He was speaking about Yugoslavia — but he could have been talking about the appalling scenes in Somalia or other parts of Africa .
13 Had he lived , we could have been talking about Field Marshal Bradford in World War Two . ’
14 You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’
15 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 .
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