Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [be] talk " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |
| 2 | The divorce had been talked over thoroughly in New York , or so she had thought . |
| 3 | I know the mental health on th on the health service side are facing the same problems and I was wondering to what extent the director had been talking to the District Health Authority on , on those lines . |
| 4 | The idea of bringing the elderly , disabled and mentally ill out of institutions to live independently in the community has been talked about for almost forty years . |
| 5 | ‘ The squire 's been talking . ’ |
| 6 | One of the guests had been talking about him . |
| 7 | Alright , and I 'll talk about , well , the lesson finishes at twelve , so if you have about a quarter of an hour , twenty minutes on that , then what I want each group to have someone who will report back on what the group 's been talking about in the next twenty minutes or so . |
| 8 | His uncle , he said , was very displeased that the bargemen had been talking with us . |
| 9 | This time the Americans have been talking to negotiators as often as three times a day , sitting with one side and then another to explore positions on such controversial issues as the disposition of authority over West Bank land . |
| 10 | Anyway , in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett . |
| 11 | Alright , so there 's this interest in what women talk about when they 're by themselves and when Martha comes down , she wants to know what the men have been talking about as well . |
| 12 | Some of the children had been talked to and examined , but nothing was found . |
| 13 | Conversation had started up among the customers in the tavern again , although two had left while the company had been talking amongst themselves . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | IBM Corp staffers and sources close to the company have been talking to PC Week about the company 's desktop software strategy , the core of which is the common microkernel that is to underlie all of its future offerings . |
| 16 | He immediately saw what the ferrymaster had been talking about . |
| 17 | Surprise , the raid had been talked about in Waco for days . |
| 18 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |