Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be speaking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well then about a month later he said he rung June and said I 've been speaking to Geoff he said and th they wan na hi er hire a car for a week . |
| 2 | Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't |
| 3 | The sort of prices which people charged and I 've been speaking with Jack only this morning , the sort of prices people charged , started way , way , way down , and then went way , way , way up . |
| 4 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 5 | I must go now , or my brother will guess I have been speaking to you . |
| 6 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose you 've been speaking against her ? ’ he added angrily to Joseph Poorgrass . |
| 9 | If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Duff , you have been speaking about Dr Carey . |
| 12 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
| 13 | The Holy Spirit out of all that we 've been speaking about and listening to you can give us the end of the sentence . |
| 14 | Roughly , the theory claims that ‘ working-class ’ children , those with whom we have been speaking in preparing this study , are suffering from a linguistic and cognitive defect vis-a-vis their ‘ middle-class ’ counterparts . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 17 | ‘ It has been speaking to me all my life — ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Then , in the same gentle tone she had heard Travis use when he had been speaking to the woman he loved , he murmured , ‘ Leith , my darling , I just ca n't keep it to myself any longer — do you mind ? ’ |
| 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 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | But when he had been speaking of Katherine 's children , her opinion of him had begun to change , it sounded as if he did have a genuine sympathy for them and their plight . |
| 26 | He had been speaking of his wife , and Constance had been surprised , for this was the language of love and quite unlike the more usual ‘ Cor , you should 've seen the pair she had on ‘ er . ’ |
| 27 | He spotted your sign , ’ Vitor said , with a nod towards it , ‘ so he 's been speaking to the locals and asking a few questions . ’ |
| 28 | He 's been speaking at a debate on the issue in Strasbourg . |
| 29 | He 's been speaking from the mountain using a satellite telephone . |