Example sentences of "been talking [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , I 'd like to ask a question , why is it so , why is it so frightening to spoil yourself ? , why is it such a , a wrong thing to spoil yourself , erm we 've been talking about make up we 've been talking about |
| 2 | In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . |
| 3 | What do you imagine goes on in my head all night when you 've been talking about splitting up ? |
| 4 | For weeks Downing Street has been talking about bringing Mr Major and Mr Clinton together when the premier travels to the States to take part in US-EC summit . |
| 5 | I mean here we are , we 've been talking about taking holidays in this area , and I imagine that much of the work that you do as a local Tourist Board is not actually directly aimed at people who live in this area . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd been talking about getting married for quite a while , ’ said Nicky . |
| 7 | I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it |
| 8 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 9 | Erm it seems to me that we 've been talking about capturing elephants but er is it really a Trojan horse ? |
| 10 | He might have been talking about weekending on the moon . |
| 11 | Yes of course , er , you know this thing we 've been talking about joining with the |
| 12 | People have been talking about finding ‘ one voice ’ for the industry for many years . |
| 13 | He had been talking about giving up and concentrating his efforts entirely on writing and directing and , like the discovery of another little nugget , was spurred on by reaction to The Trip which , in spite of a critical mauling on the grounds of promoting drug abuse , was still seen as a gifted piece of writing . |