Example sentences of "i 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 .
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