Example sentences of "have been talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 61 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 62 | Of course , he 'd been talking to Maria Luisa ; he had nothing to say to Steve . |
| 63 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 64 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 65 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 66 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 67 | 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 . |
| 68 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 69 | 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 . |
| 70 | ‘ No , he 'd been talking about it . |
| 71 | Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about . |
| 72 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 73 | ‘ We 'd been talking about getting married for quite a while , ’ said Nicky . |
| 74 | I said to I said cos he 'd they 'd been talking about me . |
| 75 | 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 ! |
| 76 | 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 ? |
| 77 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
| 78 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
| 79 | " She could n't have been talking to Rome , " Seddon said . |
| 80 | ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’ |
| 81 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
| 82 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |
| 83 | Five years ago at such a gathering everyone would probably have been talking about property , or inside deals , between bitching about colleagues . |
| 84 | She seemed so angry that she could have been talking about hate , or revenge , or death , rather than love . |
| 85 | He could have been talking about Ken Mentle . |
| 86 | He was castigating the new Royal Shakespeare production , Peter Brooke 's US , on the war in Vietnam , but he could almost have been talking about the magazine . |
| 87 | He might have been talking about weekending on the moon . |
| 88 | From the way he said it , he might have been talking about Krull of Varna . |
| 89 | He was speaking about Yugoslavia — but he could have been talking about the appalling scenes in Somalia or other parts of Africa . |
| 90 | Had he lived , we could have been talking about Field Marshal Bradford in World War Two . ’ |