Example sentences of "have just [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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1 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
2 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
3 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
4 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to my sister . |
5 | ‘ I 've just been speaking to Drewer , ’ rapped Naylor . |
6 | ‘ By the way , I 've just been listening to the news . |
7 | Oh I 've just been listening to your conversation with Dennis and Iris . |
8 | Then that particular Saturday , Leith 's outgoing if slightly irresponsible brother had come to tell her excitedly , ‘ I 've just been chatting to Rosemary Green ! ’ |
9 | Er in fact I have now , Mr has found the er the report which has actually got the traffic assessment e that we 've just been referring to which is er no western relief road but with in an inner northern road . |
10 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
11 | ‘ I 've just been talking to your aunt on the phone . |
12 | I 've just been talking to Captain Montgomery . |
13 | ‘ I 've just been talking to Mrs Flaherty , ’ she said . |
14 | Erm I I 've just been talking to me husband about it . |
15 | Catching her arm , he said quietly , ‘ I 've just been talking to Donal . ’ |
16 | But I 've just been talking to the head there and he said you know that you know the tor tutorial programme , Mrs started it all erm |
17 | You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening . |
18 | Well no she does n't , I 've just been talking to her . |
19 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
20 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
21 | As I write , on Easter day , I have just been listening to Matins from King 's college , Cambridge , broadcast on Radio 3 — superb performances of music by William Byrd and a finely engineered sound . |
22 | She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome . |