Example sentences of "she had been talking " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 She had been talking very fast , as though it made her impatient to explain .
3 She had been talking to Lapointe , which no doubt explained why she had misheard .
4 She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice .
8 She could n't remember who she had been talking to .
9 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 .
10 She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone .
11 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 .
12 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 .
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