Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had be talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 2 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 3 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 4 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 5 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 6 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 11 | He had spent most of the morning frowning , except when he had been talking to Sir William Paice and others . |
| 12 | 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 . |