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

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1 ‘ Miss Russell and I have been talking over the past . ’
2 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 . ’
3 The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto .
4 I have been talking about experiences which affect both men and women ; what I am suggesting is that the role of the Weaving Mother is to spin a thread , a bond , from the ‘ raw material ’ proffered by the male .
5 erm , moving on , erm audio description in Scotland , no er since this , the last meeting , yes Cath and I have been talking about all that money , we had an entertaining day out
6 I have been talking about the different levels at which reason operates in relation to individual disciplines : we can take up stances within disciplines , across disciplines , and in being critical of disciplines as a whole .
7 I 'm sure that over the years , you 'll have er , gone through some of the experiences that Madeline and I have been talking about over the last five minutes .
8 But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 .
9 I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to .
10 I have been talking to colleagues here in Oxford about the use of OALDCE 3/e in one of your hand held devices .
11 I have been talking to one or two members of s staff at a fairly low level over the last week .
12 I have been talking to the leaders in Medicine and Education and clearly there are many areas where we can and will be working together in telling the Government that they must support us in supplying quality services and that the Treasury is a support service , not the determinant of policy .
13 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 .
14 I have been talking with our legal adviser about these .
15 You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time .
16 I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable .
17 You have been talking about what we will be doing with it .
18 Cos every time I turn around yeah cos you two always sort of w looking at me and whispering and , you know , m half the time you have been talking about me cos I 've heard you mention my name and it 's not very nice .
19 Sometimes in this chapter we have been talking about processes , sometimes about artists .
20 In all of these discussions we have been talking about lifeforms as physical entities — creatures who , like ourselves , have bodies .
21 First , in the case of the ideal black hole we have been talking about , our spaceship and its crew might indeed travel to the far end of the Universe — but in the form of a spray of raw energy .
22 We have been talking about electrons but obviously exactly similar considerations of indistinguishability apply to all kinds of identical particles in the quantum world .
23 So far we have been talking about the flow of information from the company , but It can be equally important for management to receive information on how the world is thinking about the company and its activities , about rival companies and about the industry in which it operates .
24 So far we have been talking about the reciprocity of all discourse in the broadest of terms , connecting it to the mechanisms of dialogue only generally by saying that monologues are often constructed with the receiver in mind .
25 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 .
26 Figure 3.1 shows the joint variation of the two properties we have been talking about , and , of course , the possible values which any unit can take .
27 What we have been talking about in economies and logistics support is reducing the amount of second line base facilities for this aeroplane .
28 ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time .
29 The aspects of energy that we have been talking about this evening erm are part of your course , are they discussed in this form by the students taking your course ?
30 We have been talking to the horse , stroking it , and trying to reassure it .
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