Example sentences of "[been] talking [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nick Harris has been talking with the Oxford United manager , Brian Horton . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
4 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
5 | Mr Hagger and his partner , Dave Jennings , had been talking to a Birmingham broker about raising several million pounds of working capital . |
6 | I just been talking to a coupla friends of yours . ’ |
7 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
8 | ‘ I 've been talking to a lot of people . ’ |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
11 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
12 | 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 |
13 | I have been talking to the leaders in Medicine and Education and clearly there are many areas where we can and will be working together in telling the Government that they must support us in supplying quality services and that the Treasury is a support service , not the determinant of policy . |
14 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
15 | ‘ 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 . |
16 | ‘ You 've been talking to the girls ? ’ |
17 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | We have been talking to the horse , stroking it , and trying to reassure it . |
24 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
25 | ‘ We 've been talking of the mistress , and her strange behaviour , shepherd , ’ said the maltster . |
26 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | ‘ Miss Russell and I have been talking over the past . ’ |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |