Example sentences of "[pers pn] have just been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 2 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 3 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 4 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news . |
| 6 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
| 7 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone . |
| 11 | I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it . |
| 14 | Catching her arm , he said quietly , ‘ I 've just been talking to Donal . ’ |
| 15 | But I 've just been talking to the head there and he said you know that you know the tor tutorial programme , Mrs started it all erm |
| 16 | You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening . |
| 17 | Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her . |
| 18 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 19 | Egocentric utterances — ‘ I have just been called to head office . ’ |
| 20 | I have just been elected to the Council of the Law Society as a specialist member representing ethnic minority interests . ’ |
| 21 | As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound . |
| 22 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 23 | Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian . |
| 24 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
| 25 | She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome . |
| 26 | Er in fact I have now , Mr has found the er the report which has actually got the traffic assessment e that we 've just been referring to which is er no western relief road but with in an inner northern road . |
| 27 | For example , we want to be able to take knowledge gained from studying the free recall of nonsense syllables and make predictions about our ability to remember things like telephone numbers , or the names of people we have just been introduced to at parties . |