Example sentences of "[noun] had [been] [verb] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 2 | The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah . |
| 3 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 4 | This row , this argument had been brewing all season long . |
| 5 | Miles had been surrounded all evening , it seemed , by droves of tinselled ladies . |
| 6 | The flat was sweltering although curtains had been drawn all day to keep the sun out . |
| 7 | Harbury had been failing all day to reach Wickham , which was especially frustrating as Wickham was in the same building and Harbury felt proprietorial about the crime . |
| 8 | ‘ Kelly had been kicked all night and he thought it was going to happen again . |
| 9 | The pair had been drinking all day and Jones downed more than 10 pints , while Miss Smith , 29 , drank six or seven pints of cider , Nottingham Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 10 | But others had been celebrating all night . |
| 11 | It was dusk , it was wet , and Nicholas had been riding all day . |
| 12 | Work colleague Melvyn Robinson of Bouch Street , Shildon , said he believed Mr Hughes had been drinking all afternoon . |
| 13 | The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day . |