Example sentences of "they have been [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 2 | I said to I said cos he 'd they 'd been talking about me . |
| 3 | erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that |
| 4 | Yes , she absolutely is so , we 'll have to erm , find out from you what they 've been talking about . |
| 5 | Erm , it does n't matter what I propose , whether it actually makes out things that they 've been talking about or whether it 's completely found something to criticise about it . |
| 6 | In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . |
| 7 | Several analysts were confounded by the strong performance : only on Monday they had been muttering about how sustainable recent performance had been , and querying whether the share price had not run ahead of itself . |
| 8 | They had been working about a mile along a blind underground roadway , ending at what is due to be a new coal face , when the roof fell in 500 yards behind them . |
| 9 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 10 | It was obvious they had been talking about him . |
| 11 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 12 | They have been thinking about the long-term future and have concluded that it will be very difficult to impose nuclear weapons on a population that is generally opposed to them . |