Example sentences of "been talking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick Harris has been talking with the Oxford United manager , Brian Horton . |
| 2 | The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened . |
| 3 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 4 | We have been talking to the horse , stroking it , and trying to reassure it . |
| 5 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been talking to the girls ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 8 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 9 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
| 10 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 11 | All the time Ward had been talking to the receptionist his head had been half turned to the street doors , which were wide open , framing an incessant movement of people in an iridescent haze of hot sunlight . |
| 12 | I have been talking to the leaders in Medicine and Education and clearly there are many areas where we can and will be working together in telling the Government that they must support us in supplying quality services and that the Treasury is a support service , not the determinant of policy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I know the mental health on th on the health service side are facing the same problems and I was wondering to what extent the director had been talking to the District Health Authority on , on those lines . |
| 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 | ‘ During the last few weeks , we have , therefore , been talking to the board of the Bank of Edinburgh about a number of options which might reduce the protracted time-scales that affected the proposal . |
| 18 | and er , when we got them printed , before we even sent them off , there were one , somebody , I 've been talking to the father in , in the father of the bridge |
| 19 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've been talking of the mistress , and her strange behaviour , shepherd , ’ said the maltster . |
| 21 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 22 | ‘ Miss Russell and I have been talking over the past . ’ |
| 23 | People have been talking about the need for a ‘ killer application ’ and this is it . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We 've been quoting Morrissey repeatedly from a Record Mirror interview and he has n't been talking about the pain of youth , the imagery of sixties films or the perception of Oscar Wilde . |
| 26 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 27 | Usually , the former has been talking about the latter . |
| 28 | We 've been talking about the events in Beirut . ’ |
| 29 | So far we have been talking about the flow of information from the company , but It can be equally important for management to receive information on how the world is thinking about the company and its activities , about rival companies and about the industry in which it operates . |
| 30 | Speaker B had been talking about the radio she had in the 1930s and speaker A's first line here seems to continue within the temporal , locational and personal indices of the existing topic framework while introducing telephones . |