Example sentences of "have be speaking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the former pupils , who 's now nineteen , has been speaking about his ordeal . |
| 2 | A patient who claimed he almost died after a doctor failed to diagnose his heart attack , has been speaking about his battle against medical red-tape . |
| 3 | The Princess of Wales has been speaking about the problems faced by people caring for loved ones who have suffered brain damage . |
| 4 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 5 | To put you on stand-by for the grunt'n'groan grapplers , The Daily Mirror has been speaking to two family rivals — British Bulldog and Bret ‘ Hit Man ’ Hart . |
| 6 | ‘ It has been speaking to me all my life — ’ |
| 7 | Well in the last hour reporter Claire Lafferty has been speaking to Martin Frears ' father in Cheltenham . |
| 8 | A man charged with the manslaughter of twin sisters in a barn fire has been speaking of his ’ sheer panic ’ when the fire broke out . |
| 9 | Home Secretary David Waddington has been speaking of his sense of outrage at Saturday 's Trafalgar Square riots saying it brought some of the most ferocious violence ever seen on to the streets of London . |
| 10 | Policewoman , Leslie Harrison , who was stabbed in the heart , has been speaking from hospital about her ordeal . |
| 11 | She 'd replaced the receiver instantly and refused to tell him who she 'd been speaking to , but then , as now , there was something challenging in her expression . |
| 12 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 13 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 14 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 15 | I may have been speaking to Francis but I 'm not certain of that . |
| 16 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 17 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 18 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 19 | She could have been speaking of failing to spot an acquaintance in a crowd . |
| 20 | Wrapped up in his agreeably muddled versions of events , he might have been speaking from Mars : and with this last screen show , this cinematic oddity , the scandal sank away . |
| 21 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 22 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 23 | Indeed , I recall being present at a formal state banquet in Malawi when the Life President , His Excellency the very elderly Dr Hastings Banda , had been speaking for 45 minutes proposing the toast and had still only reached 1947 . |
| 24 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 25 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 26 | The advice was given after Jo had been speaking to both children and their parents ( an audience that included 12 year old Romy Hutchins — a participant in the Challenge — and her father Paul , the former British Davis Cup captain and national team manager ) , in a unique question and answer session which preceded an on court clinic for the 20 or so participating juniors . |
| 27 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 28 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 29 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 30 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |