Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She wished that she could ask David what Anthony had been talking about , but she obviously could not . |
| 3 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 6 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 7 | All the time Ward had been talking to the receptionist his head had been half turned to the street doors , which were wide open , framing an incessant movement of people in an iridescent haze of hot sunlight . |
| 8 | The eight-year-old Ian had been talking in class all through a painting lesson . |
| 9 | 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 . |