Example sentences of "been talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been talking with Father O'Harte , and I 'm come back . |
| 2 | I have been talking with our legal adviser about these . |
| 3 | For the last year at least it 's been talking with X terminal vendors such as Network Computing Devices , Tektronix , Visual Technology and Human Designed Systems under non-disclosure . |
| 4 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 5 | One 's been talking with a small group of colleagues . |
| 6 | His uncle , he said , was very displeased that the bargemen had been talking with us . |
| 7 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 8 | Just before the start of this extract , Brenda has been talking with her friends about an incident at a party . |
| 9 | Nick has been talking with manager Brian Horton and we 'll be bringing you that interview as soon as we can . |
| 10 | Nick Harris has been talking with the Oxford United manager , Brian Horton . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 13 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 14 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 15 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 16 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 17 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 18 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 19 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 20 | He had also been talking for ages to Broadman , and Ymor had seen a piece of paper change hands . |
| 21 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 22 | The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened . |
| 23 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 24 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 25 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 26 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 27 | For some time it seems I 've been talking to myself . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mr Perelman has been talking to Shearson and its parent , American Express , about buying a 20 per cent shareholding in the broking business . |
| 30 | 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 . |