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 .
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