Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 2 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 3 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall . |
| 8 | It was dusk , it was wet , and Nicholas had been riding all day . |
| 9 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 12 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 13 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 14 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 15 | 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 . |