Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adv prt] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
| 2 | I had been out all day with my gun , but without success . |
| 3 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 4 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 5 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
| 6 | I 've been up all night working on these . ’ |
| 7 | Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper . |
| 8 | I 've been up all night . |
| 9 | I 've been out all day . |
| 10 | Well I 've been out all afternoon so I wondered if you 'd phoned in this afternoon . |
| 11 | But I have been up all night comma , too tired , but I was really homesick . |
| 12 | Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms . |
| 13 | So she 'd been out all day to this cousin 's at Blakely She goes on a Monday now . |
| 14 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 15 | Zbo , who had been out all day trying to sell his paintings , returned to find Modigliani sleeping off his drunken stupor on their sofa . |
| 16 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 17 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
| 18 | So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises . |
| 19 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 20 | Must of been , cos they 'd been out all day . |
| 21 | They had been out all morning considering the case . |
| 22 | He 'd been up all night . |
| 23 | He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket . |
| 24 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 25 | He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night . |