Example sentences of "she [vb past] been talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 2 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had been talking very fast , as though it made her impatient to explain . |
| 7 | She had been talking to Lapointe , which no doubt explained why she had misheard . |
| 8 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 12 | She could n't remember who she had been talking to . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |