Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’ |
| 3 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
| 4 | He might have been talking about weekending on the moon . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | From the way he said it , he might have been talking about Krull of Varna . |
| 7 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
| 8 | She seemed so angry that she could have been talking about hate , or revenge , or death , rather than love . |
| 9 | He could have been talking about Ken Mentle . |
| 10 | He was speaking about Yugoslavia — but he could have been talking about the appalling scenes in Somalia or other parts of Africa . |
| 11 | Had he lived , we could have been talking about Field Marshal Bradford in World War Two . ’ |
| 12 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |