Example sentences of "they have be talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 2 | I said to I said cos he 'd they 'd been talking about me . |
| 3 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 4 | Yes , she absolutely is so , we 'll have to erm , find out from you what they 've been talking about . |
| 5 | Erm , it does n't matter what I propose , whether it actually makes out things that they 've been talking about or whether it 's completely found something to criticise about it . |
| 6 | In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . |
| 7 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 8 | It was obvious they had been talking about him . |
| 9 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 10 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 11 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 12 | They had been talking in low voices . |
| 13 | They had been talking in Spanish . |