Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have been talking [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it
2 Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about .
3 I mean tha , is it all , you know , do we need all the time to have erm extra administrative help and in in , and in terms of which we 've been talking about before , I know they might sound like two conflicting issues but one of the ways of ensuring we get the work done is do we trying too much at the Synod ?
4 If a company provides a service to the kind of employee which we have been talking about , and the company subsidises that service , the benefit assessable on the employee is the cost to the employer of providing that service .
5 Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years .
6 A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to .
7 She could n't remember who she had been talking to .
8 Anyway er it were what you write down , you 're supposed to write who you 've been talking to , tt what the occupation is er you , how old they are , female , male regional accent and that 's , if you were born in London that 's your accent you 're using int it ?
9 It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience .
10 I told him I 'd been talking to Richie .
11 As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it .
12 And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working .
13 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 .
14 I have to write what I 've been talking about .
15 Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’
16 The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto .
17 Opposite adjacent this is what you 've been talking about the a the angle is n't it .
18 Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble .
19 Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it .
23 But to be honest it is a good way of focusing in on what you what we 've been talking about tonight and if you can I think it would be worthwhile doing as part of your preparation to help you to think .
24 Actually give people chance to try what we 've been talking about .
25 Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship
26 I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it .
27 And , in a sense , we 've , just to complete what we 've been talking about so far , there 's always the question of press and magazines and house style , just to remind you that you really need to study formats if you 're going to try and as a freelance we talked about that yesterday .
28 What we have been talking about in economies and logistics support is reducing the amount of second line base facilities for this aeroplane .
29 Yes , she absolutely is so , we 'll have to erm , find out from you what they 've been talking about .
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