Example sentences of "[been] talking about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | People have been talking about finding ‘ one voice ’ for the industry for many years . |
| 3 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 4 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 5 | Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble . |
| 6 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 7 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 8 | People have been talking about the need for a ‘ killer application ’ and this is it . ’ |
| 9 | He explained : ‘ He 's been talking about Peter Pan since he was three years old . |
| 10 | One of the guests had been talking about him . |
| 11 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |
| 12 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 13 | Do you want the rest of the world to say the British are so aggressive that they need the sort of controls we 've been talking about ? |
| 14 | He had been talking about giving up and concentrating his efforts entirely on writing and directing and , like the discovery of another little nugget , was spurred on by reaction to The Trip which , in spite of a critical mauling on the grounds of promoting drug abuse , was still seen as a gifted piece of writing . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean , all this we 've been talking about . |
| 16 | We 've been quoting Morrissey repeatedly from a Record Mirror interview and he has n't been talking about the pain of youth , the imagery of sixties films or the perception of Oscar Wilde . |
| 17 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 18 | He immediately saw what the ferrymaster had been talking about . |
| 19 | Should she try and get him back again or buy a newspaper first and try to find out what in the world he had been talking about ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The letter ( the one we have just been talking about , the one that arrived by post this morning , the one containing Aunt Kitty 's cheque … ) is in the drawer ( the one in the desk , the one in the dressing table upstairs , the one in the kitchen where we always put the post … ) . |
| 22 | The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto . |
| 23 | Sometimes in this chapter we have been talking about processes , sometimes about artists . |
| 24 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 25 | I have been talking about experiences which affect both men and women ; what I am suggesting is that the role of the Weaving Mother is to spin a thread , a bond , from the ‘ raw material ’ proffered by the male . |
| 26 | It was obvious they had been talking about him . |
| 27 | ‘ The only difference is that in Rome everybody has been talking about this game for three months . |
| 28 | In all of these discussions we have been talking about lifeforms as physical entities — creatures who , like ourselves , have bodies . |
| 29 | First , in the case of the ideal black hole we have been talking about , our spaceship and its crew might indeed travel to the far end of the Universe — but in the form of a spray of raw energy . |
| 30 | But I ca n't see in the long run that it would make any difference to what we 've been talking about , seeing who Maggie is . |