Example sentences of "had [vb pp] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there were tears in Alexandra 's eyes and a lot of the older people had stopped talking to watch . |
| 2 | As he was relating his story , he suddenly realised that sitting before him among the directors was the sandy-haired man he had seen talking to Mr Dwerringhouse . |
| 3 | They had stayed talking very late last night , and he knew a lot more about her than she had ever expected to tell anyone , while she knew something about him . |
| 4 | On both occasions , after he had finished talking , he had been a perspiring , gibbering wreck . |
| 5 | ‘ Good God , ’ Philpott muttered when Kolchinsky had finished talking . |
| 6 | Before the Swinbrook farmer had finished talking to them , Boz leaped to his feet to say , angrily , ‘ We Romanies have been using the forest for hundreds of years . |
| 7 | When they had finished talking , Carolyn crept into Chrissy 's room with two kitchen chairs , and draped her shawl over them like a tent , and put the lamp underneath . |
| 8 | I was going to tell my joke to the nice German but he had started talking to someone else . |
| 9 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 10 | Albert had started talking as loudly as possible to the children . |
| 11 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 12 | At least Karen had started talking to him again . |
| 13 | Jamie called her Ug the Cavewoman , Francis had tried talking with her on many occasions : |
| 14 | We had tried talking across the negotiating table and we had tried talking through the medium of Pat Lowry , the Chairman of ACAS . |
| 15 | We had tried talking across the negotiating table and we had tried talking through the medium of Pat Lowry , the Chairman of ACAS . |
| 16 | They had stood talking for quite some time , each of them perhaps slightly the worse for wear , and then she had invited him up to her North Oxford home for a night-cap . |