Example sentences of "[vb base] been talking [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been talking so much , it 's foolish that we do n't even know each other 's names . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |