Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [adj] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 2 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 3 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 4 | It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all . |
| 5 | Durrant , such an influence when they overcame Leeds in the previous round , had been struggling all night as the makeshift partner for Mark Hateley , in the absence of the injured Ally McCoist . |
| 6 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 7 | Albeit , Renee 's fame throughout the locality had been assured that night . |
| 8 | Brian had been drunk last night , certainly , but there had been no dog 's abuse out of him . |
| 9 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 10 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 11 | ‘ Kelly had been kicked all night and he thought it was going to happen again . |
| 12 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 13 | But others had been celebrating all night . |
| 14 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 15 | Grasping her conference handbook tightly , she took her place in the queue where , she had been told last night over supper , she ran the risk of being stripped and searched by an army of discharged traffic wardens . |
| 16 | Pike was pointing to the grass near to where Mr Marr had been sitting that night . |
| 17 | She looked like a girl who had been tripping all night . |
| 18 | During the terrible retreat from Mons in late August , certain officers wrote home of their impression that their foot-sore infantry had been accompanied one night by a mysterious force of cavalry , of which no trace could be found next day . |
| 19 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |