Example sentences of "[vb past] been talking [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hagger and his partner , Dave Jennings , had been talking to a Birmingham broker about raising several million pounds of working capital . |
| 2 | He had been talking to a tall girl with white-blonde hair , but suddenly he turned his head slightly and looked straight at Maria , and every muscle in her body clenched in furious , shocked resistance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 5 | Two rather hysterical women had been talking in a suburban living-room , the one brunette and hawk-nosed , desperate for approval of a new pair of shoes , the other auburn and bright-eyed , and equally desperate about an undeclared affair her absent husband was having . |