Example sentences of "they have been talking " in BNC.

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1 So they 'd been talking about it already .
2 Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing .
3 I said to I said cos he 'd they 'd been talking about me .
4 Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there
5 Yes , she absolutely is so , we 'll have to erm , find out from you what they 've been talking about .
6 Erm , it does n't matter what I propose , whether it actually makes out things that they 've been talking about or whether it 's completely found something to criticise about it .
7 In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards .
8 They said that they had been talking about it themselves .
9 They had been talking in low voices .
10 When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her .
11 It was obvious they had been talking about him .
12 It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner .
13 ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’
14 Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil .
15 While they had been talking , the Administrator had slipped quietly from the room .
16 They had been talking in Spanish .
17 She was fleetingly reminded of Shildon insisting they walked singly into the newsroom so no one should know they had been talking together .
18 While they had been talking , there had been a couple of moments when he had n't looked in the least civilised !
19 ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life .
20 We have been talking apples — the rights and concerns of women — while they have been talking oranges — the rights and concerns of fetuses .
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