Example sentences of "had [adv] been talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked Nanny what they had all been talking about as Nanny towelled her dry . |
| 2 | They had not been talking about the Dane , but she felt disinclined to revert to a discussion about the ease with which Vitor could persuade her to go to bed with him . |
| 3 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 4 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 5 | He had also been talking for ages to Broadman , and Ymor had seen a piece of paper change hands . |
| 6 | At least he was n't going to pretend he had n't been talking to her . |
| 7 | It was n't that she had n't been talking to Mandy , it was just that she had let her displeasure over that application be felt for an entire week now . |
| 8 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 9 | In fact , he had n't been talking in aesthetic terms at all . |