Example sentences of "[vb past] be talk [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 2 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 3 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They knew we 'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 8 | Leaving whoever it was he 'd been talking to , he started towards her . |
| 9 | For a long moment their glances clashed like swords , then there was a shout behind her , and she turned to see the two men he 'd been talking to and a short stout woman in a dark overall running towards them . |
| 10 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 11 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 12 | Of course , he 'd been talking to Maria Luisa ; he had nothing to say to Steve . |
| 13 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 14 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 15 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 16 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ No , he 'd been talking about it . |
| 21 | Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about . |
| 22 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'd been talking about getting married for quite a while , ’ said Nicky . |
| 24 | I said to I said cos he 'd they 'd been talking about me . |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
| 29 | It is hardly surprising , therefore , that deposition should be mooted again — it had been talked of in the Gaveston crisis . |
| 30 | He had been talked into editing the Complete Poems and Plays as early as 1959 , with the blessing of the present Lord Ash , an elderly Methodist peer who was a descendant of a remote cousin of Ash himself and heir to the ownership of the unsold manuscripts . |