Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] have be [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right or the other shapes we 've been talking about . |
| 2 | But it 's in having said that it 's an interesting fact that the knitted fabric as such we know , is a warm sort of comfortable fabric and it 's obviously used in where I call the , the cold climes , and that , that 's why it 's developed in the very areas we 've been talking about . |
| 3 | And that 's an encouraging line because those of us , and I include myself who am not always articulate , who ca n't always get the , the words together to make a sentence and finish it , can try nevertheless to come up with something which is interesting , can contain the ‘ Hey , this is for you , ’ for the audience , along the lines we 've been talking about yesterday . |
| 4 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 5 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 6 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 7 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 8 | In all of these discussions we have been talking about lifeforms as physical entities — creatures who , like ourselves , have bodies . |
| 9 | One of the most frequent questions I have been asked about roses goes something like this : ‘ I bought some of the variety x when it was first exhibited at Chelsea and the other shows . |
| 10 | ‘ It will be a relief to have it out in the open and it will stop all the questions I have been getting about my future , ’ said the 21year-old Nottingham Forest player . |
| 11 | I said oh I 'm not gon na give you my telephone number after the things I 've been hearing about you ! |
| 12 | ‘ So do I ; it 's one of the things I 've been missing about Australia — that and the sun . ’ |
| 13 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
| 14 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 15 | Cos the various things you 've been saying about the rich peasant economy , I mean |
| 16 | The things you 've been saying about him . |
| 17 | Figure 3.1 shows the joint variation of the two properties we have been talking about , and , of course , the possible values which any unit can take . |
| 18 | Now it 's important that we come up with some interesting things because , as you know , as the course goes on we 're going to be joined by professionals from the media , in the form of Bob Satchwell later on this afternoon , and other gentlemen from the local radio and so forth tomorrow , and they 're actually going to , as it were , confirm , or not , as the case may be , the sort of things we 've been talking about . |
| 19 | What do you think about this statue and all these trees we 've been talking about the ones around by Marks and Spencers yes ? |
| 20 | Do you want the rest of the world to say the British are so aggressive that they need the sort of controls we 've been talking about ? |
| 21 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 22 | I feel it sums up many of the issues we have been thinking about recently … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ So how do we avoid turning into those sort of pillocks I 've been talking about , Jim ? ’ |
| 24 | At the moment if you talk to women , the women you 've been talking about , about going into parliament , I mean it 's a laugh , is n't it ? |
| 25 | Erm , I was going to mention , as Rob has done the increase in new complaints , which I think is somewhat welcome erm , we 're still taking a long time from the averages over the last twelve months , I think that 's just reflecting being out some days over the ones you 've been talking about , er , we 're down on actual stage one equipments in the month erm , we 're not quite sure why that is , mm it 's just the way things have panned out . |
| 26 | On the criteria we 've been talking about today , so find yourself a partner that you have n't worked with today somebody erm if you go in the same group that Kathy 's in because then if it comes up to four o'clock Kathy wants to go then you can be the other partner you 've got half an hour to put on one sheet of paper clearly and concisely what we 've done on communications . |
| 27 | Well , they can come in to the church , as many of them do , erm and I just say to them well , you know , do you respect this place and fine , it 's a place where we do n't chuck anybody out who comes into church for all sorts of reasons during the day when the church is open , you know , people come in , and there are many people like the ones we 've been talking about , who are in desperate need , and we just ask them to respect certain fairly mild rules they can always go out in the churchyard and smoke , but in the building itself we say no smoking and no drinking . |
| 28 | The Test and County Cricket Board 's chief executive Alan Smith said he was satisfied with assurances he had been given about the safety of Graham Gooch 's 16-man squad . |