Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must have been raining last night . |
| 2 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 3 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 4 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 8 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But others had been celebrating all night . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Pike was pointing to the grass near to where Mr Marr had been sitting that night . |
| 14 | She looked like a girl who had been tripping all night . |
| 15 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
| 16 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been working all night and I 'm worn out . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been working all night to get our ricks covered . |
| 19 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 20 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |
| 21 | A second rapper causes batted eyelids for a time , and the addition of a second guitar during an encore of ‘ Go Wild ’ suddenly give the sound the extra bite it 's been missing all night , but if 25th Of May are going to appeal on musical merit as a vehicle for their politics , they 'll have to update their sound , experiment and hit harder than this . |
| 22 | Monica , the nursery nurse , told me : They all know what it 's like to come in and say , " I hate that child , it 's been crying all night " ; whereas they feel reluctant to say that to other people because people are looking at them and their age . |
| 23 | She 's been crying all night really . |