Example sentences of "have been [adv prt] all night " in BNC.

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1 Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion .
2 He 'd been up all night .
3 He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises .
7 ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’
8 He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary .
9 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 .
10 It looked as if both men had been up all night .
11 He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night .
12 ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them .
13 We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep .
14 But I 've been up all night .
15 I 've been up all night , thinking .
16 I 've been up all night working on these . ’
17 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 .
18 I 've been up all night .
19 But I have been up all night comma , too tired , but I was really homesick .
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