Example sentences of "have be talking [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Hitachi has been talking about a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ using the RISC for a couple of years now , but is using a Sparc front-end for OSF/1 Unix on its existing mainframes ( CI No 2,144 ) . |
2 | Usually , the former has been talking about the latter . |
3 | As detectives continue their hunt for the man , a woman who counsels rape victims in Hereford has been talking about the crime : |
4 | The victim of a vicious assault has been talking about the attack which left him unconscious and with a broken jaw . |
5 | 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 … |
6 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
7 | Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits . |
8 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
9 | Nick Harris has been talking with the Oxford United manager , Brian Horton . |
10 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
11 | The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened . |
12 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
13 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
14 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
15 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
16 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |
17 | He was castigating the new Royal Shakespeare production , Peter Brooke 's US , on the war in Vietnam , but he could almost have been talking about the magazine . |
18 | He was speaking about Yugoslavia — but he could have been talking about the appalling scenes in Somalia or other parts of Africa . |
19 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
20 | Speaker B had been talking about the radio she had in the 1930s and speaker A's first line here seems to continue within the temporal , locational and personal indices of the existing topic framework while introducing telephones . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
23 | He was not sure that Jehan had been talking about the arrows , and remembering that Jehan was Burun 's grandson he wondered how much he knew , or had been told , about the plan to obtain Sidacai 's freedom . |
24 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Mr Hagger and his partner , Dave Jennings , had been talking to a Birmingham broker about raising several million pounds of working capital . |
27 | He had been talking to a tall girl with white-blonde hair , but suddenly he turned his head slightly and looked straight at Maria , and every muscle in her body clenched in furious , shocked resistance . |
28 | ‘ 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |