Examples of 'had been speaking' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been speaking"

Had been speaking: Describes a past action or event where someone was engaged in verbal communication or dialogue. This phrase implies that the individual had been talking or conveying information for a period of time leading up to a specific point in the past

How to use "had been speaking" in a sentence

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had been speaking
He had been speaking for some time.
He said that he had been speaking to me.
I had been speaking and probably embarrassed myself.
Augustine concluded that he had been speaking with an angel.
I had been speaking the last two nights.
It was the woman who had been speaking.
Chet had been speaking publically about coven activities.
He then confronted the men that he had been speaking to.
Had been speaking of the great matter in hand or not.
The judge had been speaking.
I had been speaking for almost two hours without interruption.
Up to now he had been speaking.
He had been speaking to my mother by himself.
She says he was upset that she had been speaking with another man.
However we had been speaking about case furnishings were not we.

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They all stood silent except for the man who had been speaking.
Is this why he had been speaking to her with such love.
Brother Baxter and them had been speaking.
Had been speaking.
Jane realized that God had been speaking to her in her dream.
We had been speaking with Fernando all day.
Seven had been examining one of panels whilst Harry had been speaking.
A neighbor had been speaking about beginning a business for at the very least six months.
Wisdom responded as if I had been speaking out loud.
Catherine had been speaking so low that her voice seemed to come from another world.
He was talking to Eugène because Eugène had been speaking.
They had been speaking of the voyage to England.
No one would leave Him if He had been speaking figuratively.
God had been speaking to Job through his suffering.
I looked back to the man I had been speaking to.
She had been speaking of a different bill on equal opportunities currently before the Duma.
I felt embarrassed to realize I had been speaking in metaphor without knowing it.
He had been speaking about the signs that would precede His Second Coming.
I met up with someone that I had been speaking to from Reddit for the first time.
I had been speaking with an Indigenous Elder.
And I knew it was intended for the man to whom I had been speaking.
He told me God had been speaking the same thing to him.
This entire time, all the adults in my life had been speaking for me.
He had been speaking and listening to her, too.
For the past week, they had been speaking only when necessary.
Norden had been speaking with great seriousness, but there was a mischievous twinkle in his eye.
Something I needed, and then ignored for a very long time, had been speaking to me.
But when he was found, he had been speaking amongst scholars and rabbis.
He had been speaking at an art gallery in Ankara, the Turkish capital.
He admitted that in all this He had been speaking in hard-to-grasp figurative language.
God had been speaking to me about them for years but I wasn't really listening.
Beaumont received this observation with ill-humour, as though I had been speaking of my own house.
If we had been speaking in person to each other, this would never happen.
Throughout his illness, I had been speaking to him.
You had been speaking to us all week, Lord.

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