Example sentences of "[been] talking [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 2 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 3 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 4 | I just been talking to a coupla friends of yours . ’ |
| 5 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been talking to a lot of people . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ During the last few weeks , we have , therefore , been talking to the board of the Bank of Edinburgh about a number of options which might reduce the protracted time-scales that affected the proposal . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 10 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | and er , when we got them printed , before we even sent them off , there were one , somebody , I 've been talking to the father in , in the father of the bridge |
| 14 | All the time Ward had been talking to the receptionist his head had been half turned to the street doors , which were wide open , framing an incessant movement of people in an iridescent haze of hot sunlight . |
| 15 | I know the mental health on th on the health service side are facing the same problems and I was wondering to what extent the director had been talking to the District Health Authority on , on those lines . |
| 16 | We have been talking to the horse , stroking it , and trying to reassure it . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been talking of the mistress , and her strange behaviour , shepherd , ’ said the maltster . |
| 18 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 19 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 20 | ‘ Miss Russell and I have been talking over the past . ’ |
| 21 | So far we have been talking about the flow of information from the company , but It can be equally important for management to receive information on how the world is thinking about the company and its activities , about rival companies and about the industry in which it operates . |
| 22 | Hope smiled to himself : the smile broadened , and to disguise his true feelings he turned the smile on Mr Crump ; who was greatly encouraged as he had been talking about the slave trade on which much of his father 's great founding fortune had been based . |
| 23 | Yet it was from Samsova , says Cohan , that the idea for A Midsummer Night 's Dream originally came : ‘ We had been talking about the company doing Forrest , one of my earlier works , when Galina mentioned The Dream . |
| 24 | On our side it 's , you know , do n't believe everything , anything , sorry not everything but anything you read in the papers , and yet , at the same time , every national newspaper on a Saturday night at about eleven-thirty gets a phone , series of phone-calls all saying , ‘ Please settle this argument for us we just been talking about the winner of the F A Cup Final in nineteen forty-three ’ or something , and that , you know , and , so we 've got the public out there saying ‘ Do n't believe what you read in the newspapers ’ yet , ‘ Settle our arguments . ’ |
| 25 | Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth . |
| 26 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 27 | Now let me push on a bit and erm I wo n't ask you to write this down , but when we , we 've been talking about the state now what are the characteristics of the state ? |
| 28 | The two have been talking about the refurbishment since 1984 . |
| 29 | A man whose house was twice hit by lightning in a fortnight has been talking about the experience , which bookmakers say is a two-billion-to one-chance … |
| 30 | The governor 's thing is coming about quite useful tonight because we 've been talking about the law as regards governors and parents ' rights and what you 're supposed to ask parents |