Example sentences of "[vb past] been talking [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 2 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 3 | Speaker B had been talking about the radio she had in the 1930s and speaker A's first line here seems to continue within the temporal , locational and personal indices of the existing topic framework while introducing telephones . |
| 4 | Hope smiled to himself : the smile broadened , and to disguise his true feelings he turned the smile on Mr Crump ; who was greatly encouraged as he had been talking about the slave trade on which much of his father 's great founding fortune had been based . |
| 5 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 8 | Yet it was from Samsova , says Cohan , that the idea for A Midsummer Night 's Dream originally came : ‘ We had been talking about the company doing Forrest , one of my earlier works , when Galina mentioned The Dream . |
| 9 | Mr Hagger and his partner , Dave Jennings , had been talking to a Birmingham broker about raising several million pounds of working capital . |
| 10 | He had been talking to a tall girl with white-blonde hair , but suddenly he turned his head slightly and looked straight at Maria , and every muscle in her body clenched in furious , shocked resistance . |
| 11 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I know the mental health on th on the health service side are facing the same problems and I was wondering to what extent the director had been talking to the District Health Authority on , on those lines . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 19 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 20 | Two rather hysterical women had been talking in a suburban living-room , the one brunette and hawk-nosed , desperate for approval of a new pair of shoes , the other auburn and bright-eyed , and equally desperate about an undeclared affair her absent husband was having . |