Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] had be talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 2 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 3 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 4 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 5 | Should she try and get him back again or buy a newspaper first and try to find out what in the world he had been talking about ? |