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

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1 I had been talking about it ever since our time out there .
2 I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location .
3 ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time .
4 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 . ’
5 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 .
6 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
7 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 .
8 ‘ So how do we avoid turning into those sort of pillocks I 've been talking about , Jim ? ’
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 I have to write what I 've been talking about .
13 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto .
16 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 .
17 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
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 .
21 I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin .
22 And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it !
23 Opposite adjacent this is what you 've been talking about the a the angle is n't it .
24 What do you imagine goes on in my head all night when you 've been talking about splitting up ?
25 ‘ You mean you 've been talking about — what was she called ? — Inez — the mother of Matthew 's children ? ’
26 You 've been talking about doggy-dos I 'm gon na talk to you about my dog .
27 in those days like they do in the time you 've been talking about ?
28 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 .
29 Now , you 've been talking about Donna 's birth , but I thought it was your own you wanted to find out about ? ’
30 You 've been talking about wonder-boy Elliot , ’ she guessed , spotting his name .
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