Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [been] talk [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 2 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 3 | Well , to be honest , it seems to , I Peter 's got the details cos he 's been talking to er , the public health clerk . |
| 4 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had spent most of the morning frowning , except when he had been talking to Sir William Paice and others . |
| 7 | 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 . |