Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 4 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 5 | On a course recently someone suggested I had been talking too much and should be told to keep quiet . |
| 6 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 7 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had been talking very fast , as though it made her impatient to explain . |
| 10 | She had been talking to Lapointe , which no doubt explained why she had misheard . |
| 11 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 15 | She could n't remember who she had been talking to . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 20 | I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it |
| 21 | I forget what we had been talking and arguing about , but probably it was something connected with our continuing confusions about poetry and sex . |
| 22 | Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble . |
| 23 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 24 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 25 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 26 | Yet it was from Samsova , says Cohan , that the idea for A Midsummer Night 's Dream originally came : ‘ We had been talking about the company doing Forrest , one of my earlier works , when Galina mentioned The Dream . |
| 27 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 28 | They had been talking in low voices . |
| 29 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 30 | It was obvious they had been talking about him . |