Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] talking [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth .
2 Astra has already been talking to officials of the Commons about its planned service , based on the American C-Span cable network , which performs a similar function .
3 We 've been quoting Morrissey repeatedly from a Record Mirror interview and he has n't been talking about the pain of youth , the imagery of sixties films or the perception of Oscar Wilde .
4 I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ?
5 He has n't been talking to anybody has he ?
6 he 'd obviously been talking about , erm
7 We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful .
8 We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful .
9 The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see .
10 I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks .
11 ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo .
12 She asked Nanny what they had all been talking about as Nanny towelled her dry .
13 They had not been talking about the Dane , but she felt disinclined to revert to a discussion about the ease with which Vitor could persuade her to go to bed with him .
14 And every generation , as we 've just been talking about , is going to have its misers creating other forms of famine .
15 I think , if we 're going to be realistic , there are practical dangers for that , that can put in danger erm some of the things we 've just been talking about .
16 Or is that what we 've just been talking about ? ’
17 It 's a letter from the Executive Services Officer that states , rule six , which is the one I 've just been talking about on the previous motion , is quite clear in saying that only individual members can pursue appeals and not a branch .
18 It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes .
19 I mean , it 's not divorced from the things that we 've just been talking about
20 Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning .
21 It would have to be , given what we 've just been talking about .
22 Which is the one we 've just been talking about .
23 ( We 've just been talking about you .
24 Hello my love we 've just been talking about you .
25 So what that booklet does , is do the bit that we 've just been talking about .
26 We 've just been talking about
27 ‘ I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone .
28 I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery .
29 ‘ I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said .
30 Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it .
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