Example sentences of "have been talking [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
2 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
3 | " She could n't have been talking to Rome , " Seddon said . |
4 | ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’ |
5 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Five years ago at such a gathering everyone would probably have been talking about property , or inside deals , between bitching about colleagues . |
8 | She seemed so angry that she could have been talking about hate , or revenge , or death , rather than love . |
9 | He could have been talking about Ken Mentle . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | He might have been talking about weekending on the moon . |
12 | From the way he said it , he might have been talking about Krull of Varna . |
13 | He was speaking about Yugoslavia — but he could have been talking about the appalling scenes in Somalia or other parts of Africa . |
14 | Had he lived , we could have been talking about Field Marshal Bradford in World War Two . ’ |
15 | ‘ 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 . |