Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 2 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 3 | The team has been learning about tree-planting and has received help from David Barbour at Gosbeck 's Farm . |
| 4 | It 's lovely to receive your letters — the post has been taking about 11–14 days to get here and most of the letters appear to have been opened , but have arrived safely nevertheless . |
| 5 | One of the former pupils , who 's now nineteen , has been speaking about his ordeal . |
| 6 | A patient who claimed he almost died after a doctor failed to diagnose his heart attack , has been speaking about his battle against medical red-tape . |
| 7 | The Princess of Wales has been speaking about the problems faced by people caring for loved ones who have suffered brain damage . |
| 8 | Catherine Everett has been hearing about it . |
| 9 | In it , a small child roams the streets , talking to strangers , until he finally goes off with a woman who has been wandering about pushing an empty pram . |
| 10 | He has been wandering about Wales , giving a spending pledge here and a spending pledge there . |
| 11 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 12 | IBM Corp has been muttering about migrating to RISC technology for the AS/400 processor for a year or so now , and the company is now talking openly about it , saying that the AS/400 will move to a RISC , but not until several criteria are met . |
| 13 | Darlington has been boasting about its forthcoming attraction at the Cornmill . |
| 14 | JANE MACQUITTY has been writing about wine since 1975 and is wine correspondent for The Times . |
| 15 | Looking at the sorts of things that Paul writes about as well , you 'll see that there is a change in material ; up to now , he has been writing about Christian doctrine . |
| 16 | For some time now , it must be said , the Antiguan superhero has been mumbling about hanging up his cape altogether . |
| 17 | Hunter Howerton , an American secret service agent , has been reminiscing about the days when counterfeiting was a specialist art form . |
| 18 | FOR two years NATO has been fretting about its new place in the world , if any , after the fading of the Soviet danger , if fade it does . |
| 19 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 20 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 21 | But last night a source close to Jagger said : ‘ All that stuff she has been saying about hardly knowing him is rubbish . |
| 22 | Erm what this is really about , I think we all recognise this is the erm purchaser aim to increase their leverage in the contract situation as against the providers on the other side of contract and in fact , I think we ought to tie this very much more in with what this authority has been saying about the proposals of the trust on the provider side because I think that this is an argument against the whole district N H S trusts that we 're getting , but it is encouraging the situation in which health authorities have purchasers on the other side of the contract are going to want to band together and merge to create a larger block in which to negotiate with their whole trust providers , I think this is a a very dangerous situation and think we needed to tie the two together as an argument there . |
| 23 | ‘ As well I know , ’ he said , ‘ or I might be tempted to thrash that cur beside you until he is senseless for what I hear that he has been saying about London of me and mine . |
| 24 | For weeks Downing Street has been talking about bringing Mr Major and Mr Clinton together when the premier travels to the States to take part in US-EC summit . |
| 25 | ‘ The only difference is that in Rome everybody has been talking about this game for three months . |
| 26 | Usually , the former has been talking about the latter . |
| 27 | Hitachi has been talking about a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ using the RISC for a couple of years now , but is using a Sparc front-end for OSF/1 Unix on its existing mainframes ( CI No 2,144 ) . |
| 28 | That looks pricey , missing both the personal computer and sub-$5,000 price points the company has been talking about , even if it does offer more floating point performance than Intel Corp 's high-end 486DX-50 chip . |
| 29 | As detectives continue their hunt for the man , a woman who counsels rape victims in Hereford has been talking about the crime : |
| 30 | An eighty five year old man who was beaten up and robbed at knifepoint at his home has been talking about his ordeal . |