Example sentences of "had be talk [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
| 2 | It is hardly surprising , therefore , that deposition should be mooted again — it had been talked of in the Gaveston crisis . |
| 3 | He had been talked into editing the Complete Poems and Plays as early as 1959 , with the blessing of the present Lord Ash , an elderly Methodist peer who was a descendant of a remote cousin of Ash himself and heir to the ownership of the unsold manuscripts . |
| 4 | Marshal Saxe had never been happy about the operation he was to command ; nor was Louis XV , who had been talked into supporting the attempt by his ministers . |
| 5 | Surprise , the raid had been talked about in Waco for days . |
| 6 | This had been talked about by a few experienced bomber squadron commanders , notably Wg Cdrs " Willie " Tait , Charles Whitworth , Syd Bufton and , of course , " Jimmy " Marks who , as bomber pilots . |
| 7 | Some of the children had been talked to and examined , but nothing was found . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of the guests had been talking about him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 15 | He immediately saw what the ferrymaster had been talking about . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was obvious they had been talking about him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She wished that she could ask David what Anthony had been talking about , but she obviously could not . |
| 24 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 |