Example sentences of "have been talking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 2 | The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened . |
| 3 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 4 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 7 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 10 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 11 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 12 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 13 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 14 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 15 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |