Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] have been talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 2 | Miguel had been watching her , and she realised that she had been talking far too freely , and that she could n't see what he was thinking because of those dark glasses . |
| 3 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 4 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 5 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 8 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 9 | Erm throughout this you know since we 've since we 've been talking you you very clearly have given me erm picture of the people who own the quarries and own the and have the erm of the directories . |