Example sentences of "had been talking [prep] " 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 | Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble . |
| 3 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 4 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 5 | One of the guests had been talking about him . |
| 6 | He had been talking about giving up and concentrating his efforts entirely on writing and directing and , like the discovery of another little nugget , was spurred on by reaction to The Trip which , in spite of a critical mauling on the grounds of promoting drug abuse , was still seen as a gifted piece of writing . |
| 7 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 8 | He immediately saw what the ferrymaster had been talking about . |
| 9 | Should she try and get him back again or buy a newspaper first and try to find out what in the world he had been talking about ? |
| 10 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 11 | It was obvious they had been talking about him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Speaker B had been talking about the radio she had in the 1930s and speaker A's first line here seems to continue within the temporal , locational and personal indices of the existing topic framework while introducing telephones . |
| 14 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 15 | Hope smiled to himself : the smile broadened , and to disguise his true feelings he turned the smile on Mr Crump ; who was greatly encouraged as he had been talking about the slave trade on which much of his father 's great founding fortune had been based . |
| 16 | She wished that she could ask David what Anthony had been talking about , but she obviously could not . |
| 17 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 18 | He was not sure that Jehan had been talking about the arrows , and remembering that Jehan was Burun 's grandson he wondered how much he knew , or had been told , about the plan to obtain Sidacai 's freedom . |
| 19 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 20 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Yet it was from Samsova , says Cohan , that the idea for A Midsummer Night 's Dream originally came : ‘ We had been talking about the company doing Forrest , one of my earlier works , when Galina mentioned The Dream . |
| 23 | I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it |
| 24 | Mr Hagger and his partner , Dave Jennings , had been talking to a Birmingham broker about raising several million pounds of working capital . |
| 25 | The two who had been talking to me went with the others back to their vehicle . |
| 26 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 27 | She had been talking to Lapointe , which no doubt explained why she had misheard . |
| 28 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 29 | She could n't remember who she had been talking to . |
| 30 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |