Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be talking about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |
| 2 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 3 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 4 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 5 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it |
| 10 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 11 | is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'd been talking about getting married for quite a while , ’ said Nicky . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 19 | I said to I said cos he 'd they 'd been talking about me . |
| 20 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 21 | It was obvious they had been talking about him . |
| 22 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 23 | ‘ No , he 'd been talking about it . |
| 24 | Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about . |
| 25 | He had been talking about giving up and concentrating his efforts entirely on writing and directing and , like the discovery of another little nugget , was spurred on by reaction to The Trip which , in spite of a critical mauling on the grounds of promoting drug abuse , was still seen as a gifted piece of writing . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |