Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] all night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking around all night . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 3 | Driving over the wide crossroads , for the second time , without another car to be seen , she had a vision of herself driving around all night . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 5 | She took the kitten in its little cardboard box to the bedroom and was constantly getting up all night , peering at the tiny bundle of black fur . |
| 6 | Wolfenstein is so addictive you will probably attempt to play it to a conclusion by staying up all night . |
| 7 | Wolfenstein is so addictive you will probably attempt to play it to a conclusion by staying up all night . |
| 8 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |
| 9 | Father and son had become locked in a verbal jousting match which had ended with Tristram stamping out of the house and staying out all night . |
| 10 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 11 | I wish you 'd ring in when you 're staying out all night , you know you 've said you will . ’ |
| 12 | Staying out all night they are . |
| 13 | The early years were war years — the horror of news , and fear of raids , and blackness at night , and poor food , and sitting up all night , and very earnest prayer . |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher was cute enough to see the need to cultivate the backbenchers who made up her lobby fodder and the knighthood became once again the reward for wrecked marriages and broken health caused by sitting up all night to vote as the whips instructed . |
| 15 | Personally , by the time I had cycled up the hill in the dark , battling against high winds and rain , wearing my rain cape in a futile attempts to keep dry , I felt more like flopping into bed than sitting up all night making silly marks on a chart and plunging outside every sixty minutes to see if it was still raining . |
| 16 | ‘ Be frank , on the road you do n't want all the bullshit , sitting up all night with them , chatting to them , they nick your f—ing mini-bar , nick your clothes . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know , but I 'm going to find out even if it means sitting up all night reading that bloody book . |
| 18 | Cos I mean if you look at it , you 're laying down all night and relax , do you see what I mean ? |