Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 2 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 3 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 4 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 5 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 10 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 11 | On a course recently someone suggested I had been talking too much and should be told to keep quiet . |
| 12 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 13 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 14 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 15 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 16 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 17 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She had been talking very fast , as though it made her impatient to explain . |
| 22 | She had been talking to Lapointe , which no doubt explained why she had misheard . |
| 23 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 27 | She could n't remember who she had been talking to . |
| 28 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 29 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
| 30 | Miguel had been watching her , and she realised that she had been talking far too freely , and that she could n't see what he was thinking because of those dark glasses . |