Example sentences of "been talking [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 2 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 3 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 4 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 5 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 6 | I was asking you about the guy Adam 's been talking to this evening . ’ |
| 7 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 8 | I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 10 | The aspects of energy that we have been talking about this evening erm are part of your course , are they discussed in this form by the students taking your course ? |
| 11 | ‘ The only difference is that in Rome everybody has been talking about this game for three months . |
| 12 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 13 | It were bad where erm Have I been talking in that thing all time ? |