Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] 've been talking [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 |
3 | do you think that maybe they could benefit from this idea that you 've been talking about today ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 |
6 | Yes , well this is , this is one of the er , categories that we 've been talking about . |
7 | On one level there 's this analogy , this pattern about history that we 've been talking about but er is Freud 's attempt to explain Jewish er culture in terms of a , of a general pattern of history , of course there are many other examples and Mike has suggested a brilliant one here . |
8 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
9 | Erm it seems to me that we 've been talking about capturing elephants but er is it really a Trojan horse ? |
10 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
11 | Yes , and I do hope that at the same time that we 've been talking about how relatively practical religion has become , that we shall remember the mystery which it witnesses to . |
12 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
13 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
14 | Erm , it does n't matter what I propose , whether it actually makes out things that they 've been talking about or whether it 's completely found something to criticise about it . |
15 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |
16 | Anyway , if you 've been talking to Betty you know who he is . ’ |
17 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
18 | Cos we 've been talking at least there . |
19 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
20 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
21 | It 's pretty big too because we 've been talking about women . |
22 | I think perhaps the council will now see why I 'm getting so frustrated and it 's because we 've been talking about this for over twelve months . |
23 | The governor 's thing is coming about quite useful tonight because we 've been talking about the law as regards governors and parents ' rights and what you 're supposed to ask parents |
24 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
25 | What k what kind what 's changed in the short time are the things Wh when I 've been talking to them about the publicity you said that , The last few years there 's there has been |
26 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |