Example sentences of "[pron] 've be talking about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |
| 2 | There 's very little room for the qualitative work I 've been talking about : it it is there it tends to get tacked on to an existing project when the sociologist is brought in to provide expertise on survey design or interviewing or to use a standard measure of patient ‘ quality of life . ’ |
| 3 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 4 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 5 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 6 | ‘ So how do we avoid turning into those sort of pillocks I 've been talking about , Jim ? ’ |
| 7 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
| 8 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
| 9 | But I do n't think it really ever I mean there were quite a lot of initiatives like that you know of people thinking of different ways really of of sticking together to combat er you know what I 've been talking about which was smashing unionism and er forcing lower wages really onto the the already low paid , which er really seems to be what Thatcher 's all about you know in order to er curb inflation and create a very divided society where er half the population seem to have to live either on the dole or in in poverty really in in derelict bits of Britain . |
| 10 | I have to write what I 've been talking about . |
| 11 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 12 | Opposite adjacent this is what you 've been talking about the a the angle is n't it . |
| 13 | What do you imagine goes on in my head all night when you 've been talking about splitting up ? |
| 14 | ‘ You mean you 've been talking about — what was she called ? — Inez — the mother of Matthew 's children ? ’ |
| 15 | You 've been talking about doggy-dos I 'm gon na talk to you about my dog . |
| 16 | in those days like they do in the time you 've been talking about ? |
| 17 | Erm , I was going to mention , as Rob has done the increase in new complaints , which I think is somewhat welcome erm , we 're still taking a long time from the averages over the last twelve months , I think that 's just reflecting being out some days over the ones you 've been talking about , er , we 're down on actual stage one equipments in the month erm , we 're not quite sure why that is , mm it 's just the way things have panned out . |
| 18 | Now , you 've been talking about Donna 's birth , but I thought it was your own you wanted to find out about ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been talking about wonder-boy Elliot , ’ she guessed , spotting his name . |
| 20 | do you think that maybe they could benefit from this idea that you 've been talking about today ? |
| 21 | At the moment if you talk to women , the women you 've been talking about , about going into parliament , I mean it 's a laugh , is n't it ? |
| 22 | Do you want the rest of the world to say the British are so aggressive that they need the sort of controls we 've been talking about ? |
| 23 | ‘ I mean , all this we 've been talking about . |
| 24 | But I ca n't see in the long run that it would make any difference to what we 've been talking about , seeing who Maggie is . |
| 25 | But do n't lets knock it to death do n't lets kick it this place saved my life I almost killed myself trying to fulfil those that we 've been talking about . |
| 26 | We 've been talking about the events in Beirut . ’ |
| 27 | Pretty silly , because you have n't done that piece of work , so perhaps what you would like to do if you would like to follow it with us , then I will give you back , I think I might have your survey here , and you can at least see what we 've been talking about and then on that we can write absent for this piece of work , does that make sense , good . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | That 's two different kinds of love though then , love , loving your neighbour I suppose is the widest sense and er and the love between a parent and child , are those more recognisable as , as true love if you like than the kind of romantic love , sexual love that we 've been talking about , yes |