Example sentences of "[vb past] been talking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 2 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 3 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 6 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 7 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 8 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 9 | They had been talking in low voices . |
| 10 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |