Example sentences of "[verb] be talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 3 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 4 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 5 | Mr Perelman has been talking to Shearson and its parent , American Express , about buying a 20 per cent shareholding in the broking business . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now he has been talking of being ‘ more in control ’ . |
| 8 | Today , commenting on the Labour leadership election , claims that ‘ The only one who has been talking sense is John Prescott . |
| 9 | For weeks Downing Street has been talking about bringing Mr Major and Mr Clinton together when the premier travels to the States to take part in US-EC summit . |
| 10 | But like you , he has been talking to my shipping office in Monaco and learns that there has been no communication for four days . |
| 11 | ‘ The only difference is that in Rome everybody has been talking about this game for three months . |
| 12 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 13 | Usually , the former has been talking about the latter . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 16 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 17 | The Mercury One-2-One Ltd digital cellular joint venture between Cable & Wireless Plc and US West Inc has been talking to Reuters , and says it is not seeking to trigger a price war with Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Plc . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sun Microsystems Inc president , Scott McNealy , has been talking to and having lunch with Ray Noorda lately , chewing over what 's to become of Unix System Labs under Novell Inc . |
| 20 | Compaq , meanwhile , has been talking down its ACE role ever since Rod Canion left the bridge . |
| 21 | Microsoft Corp has been talking a little more about its planned Cairo — now called Windows Cairo — object-oriented operating system , and far from being a distant prospect , it looks as if it will come hard on the heels of Windows NT , with a professional developers ' kit available as soon as early next year according to the late Systems & Network Integration . |
| 22 | Following on from last month , It seems that GeoWorks has been talking to Casio and Tandy about putting its graphical front-end on hand-held computers , slated to compete with the so-far non-existent Apple Newton . |
| 23 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 24 | Childrens World marketing communications controller John Forester says he has been talking to agencies with the knowledge of the incumbent GGT and insists there is no review of the Sears-owned business . |
| 25 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 26 | 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. |
| 27 | Mr. Speaker , Sir , ever since this Minister filled his predecessor 's boots , he has been talking a load of rubbish . |
| 28 | DAVID WALMSLEY has been talking to Ulster 's faces of the future . |
| 29 | At present some think it weak-kneed through lack of characters but Brian , speaking to us in the Belfry , has been talking to possible sponsors . |
| 30 | ‘ Our neighbour has been talking , but it is quite true . |