Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been talking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 6 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 7 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 8 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |