Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] be speaking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have been speaking to Francis but I 'm not certain of that . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | But I might have been speaking to a corpse , she was so pale and still and silent . |
| 5 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |
| 6 | She could have been speaking of failing to spot an acquaintance in a crowd . |
| 7 | 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 . |