Example sentences of "[vb infin] be talk [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
2 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
3 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
4 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
5 | ‘ The least you can do is talk to John . |
6 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
7 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
8 | " She could n't have been talking to Rome , " Seddon said . |
9 | ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’ |
10 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Five years ago at such a gathering everyone would probably have been talking about property , or inside deals , between bitching about colleagues . |
13 | She seemed so angry that she could have been talking about hate , or revenge , or death , rather than love . |
14 | He could have been talking about Ken Mentle . |
15 | He was castigating the new Royal Shakespeare production , Peter Brooke 's US , on the war in Vietnam , but he could almost have been talking about the magazine . |
16 | He might have been talking about weekending on the moon . |
17 | From the way he said it , he might have been talking about Krull of Varna . |
18 | He was speaking about Yugoslavia — but he could have been talking about the appalling scenes in Somalia or other parts of Africa . |
19 | Had he lived , we could have been talking about Field Marshal Bradford in World War Two . ’ |
20 | ‘ 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 . |