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

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1 It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B.
2 Neil MacDonald whose out from Oxford to visit Chile , has been talking to them and his reaction to their plight was direct .
3 ‘ I can see that your uncle has been talking to you about us , ’ Sophie said drily , ‘ but you do n't understand .
4 I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me .
5 I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson .
6 After I 'd been talking to him about leaving .
7 And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up
8 ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you .
9 is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death .
10 I said to I said cos he 'd they 'd been talking about me .
11 As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it .
12 So they 'd been talking about it already .
13 ‘ No , he 'd been talking about it .
14 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 !
15 One of the guests had been talking about him .
16 It was obvious they had been talking about him .
17 They said that they had been talking about it themselves .
18 I had been talking about it ever since our time out there .
19 Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word .
20 The two who had been talking to me went with the others back to their vehicle .
21 A woman had been talking to him , but she had gone away .
22 She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone .
23 His uncle , he said , was very displeased that the bargemen had been talking with us .
24 We 've been talking about them as facilitators and the need for compatibility , I think there 's also a need for every system to have a back-up of some kind , either of power or maybe a manual back-up , which in fact we were talking about the other evening .
25 Well I suppose i it means that you know the difference between right and wrong cos we 've only been We 've been talking about it further up have n't we ?
26 But we 've been talking about it for three four months .
27 You know what I think er , th we 've been talking about it round about and I says , you know , they were wondering if it was a bit suspic , I said no , th , they worry to death , there 's our children who speaking like the nig-nogs !
28 You 've been talking to her !
29 You 've been talking to him , have n't you ?
30 What k what kind what 's changed in the short time are the things Wh when I 've been talking to them about the publicity you said that , The last few years there 's there has been
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