Example sentences of "have been drinking [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , I know everyone has been drinking Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon for ages , but Bulgaria has much more to offer , with original grape varieties such as Melnik , Gamza and Mavrud which are not grown elsewhere .
2 In ‘ Downtown Beirut ’ , the boozery next door to the infamous ‘ Village Idiot ’ on 10th St. , ( where two Pogues ' albums continually rotate on the juke box ) , a dastardly plan was hatched to kidnap Strummer from out of the ‘ Seven B ’ bar , where he 'd been drinking all week , and substitute him onstage with Joe Hurley .
3 ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’
4 He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton .
5 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 .
6 A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall .
7 Work colleague Melvyn Robinson of Bouch Street , Shildon , said he believed Mr Hughes had been drinking all afternoon .
8 He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky .
9 Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends .
10 50,000 children are admitted into hospital each year because they have been drinking harmful products .
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12 I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal .
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