Example sentences of "have be talking [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits . |
| 3 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
| 4 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 5 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
| 6 | Mr Hagger and his partner , Dave Jennings , had been talking to a Birmingham broker about raising several million pounds of working capital . |
| 7 | He had been talking to a tall girl with white-blonde hair , but suddenly he turned his head slightly and looked straight at Maria , and every muscle in her body clenched in furious , shocked resistance . |
| 8 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 9 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 10 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 11 | Two rather hysterical women had been talking in a suburban living-room , the one brunette and hawk-nosed , desperate for approval of a new pair of shoes , the other auburn and bright-eyed , and equally desperate about an undeclared affair her absent husband was having . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been talking to a lot of people . ’ |
| 13 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 14 | Advertising revenue seems to be , there seems to be sometimes that there is some slight pick up , the advertising associations predicting a pick up there , one or two companies who have been reporting , have been talking about a little upturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 15 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 16 | One 's been talking with a small group of colleagues . |