Example sentences of "i [vb past] [been] talking " in BNC.

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1 I told him I 'd been talking to Richie .
2 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 .
3 ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you .
4 After I 'd been talking to him about leaving .
5 I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on .
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 I had been talking about it ever since our time out there .
9 I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke .
10 On a course recently someone suggested I had been talking too much and should be told to keep quiet .
11 I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class .
12 I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location .
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