Example sentences of "been talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You would have all been talking normally like , would n't you , sir ? ’ |
| 2 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 3 | The first , about which I have mainly been talking so far , is the generality , or potential for generality , of things in the world . |
| 4 | For some time it seems I 've been talking to myself . |
| 5 | Astra has already been talking to officials of the Commons about its planned service , based on the American C-Span cable network , which performs a similar function . |
| 6 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | People have been talking about finding ‘ one voice ’ for the industry for many years . |
| 11 | Prince Charles had been talking and gently agitating about the subject for many years . |
| 12 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Perelman has been talking to Shearson and its parent , American Express , about buying a 20 per cent shareholding in the broking business . |
| 14 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had been talking very fast , as though it made her impatient to explain . |
| 17 | I forget what we had been talking and arguing about , but probably it was something connected with our continuing confusions about poetry and sex . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |
| 20 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 21 | We have been talking to the horse , stroking it , and trying to reassure it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Labour have been talking Britain down so hard , relishing every piece of bad news , rubbing their hands at any failure in public services , that they have chosen to forget what a great country Britain really is , ’ said the broadcast . |
| 24 | Mr Hagger and his partner , Dave Jennings , had been talking to a Birmingham broker about raising several million pounds of working capital . |
| 25 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 26 | People have been talking about the need for a ‘ killer application ’ and this is it . ’ |
| 27 | He explained : ‘ He 's been talking about Peter Pan since he was three years old . |
| 28 | Now he has been talking of being ‘ more in control ’ . |
| 29 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 30 | One of the guests had been talking about him . |