Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] all [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | Work colleague Melvyn Robinson of Bouch Street , Shildon , said he believed Mr Hughes had been drinking all afternoon . |
| 9 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 10 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 11 | It was dusk , it was wet , and Nicholas had been riding all day . |
| 12 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 13 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 14 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 15 | The weather was fine on the day , a lucky day as it had been raining all week . |
| 16 | This row , this argument had been brewing all season long . |
| 17 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 18 | But others had been celebrating all night . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 21 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 22 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 23 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 26 | Yuan looked down , then broached the subject he had been avoiding all evening . |
| 27 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 28 | used to have to w run the old b back the old horse and cart into the co crew yard which had been standing all year with about umpteen beasts on it , trampling it down , more straw , trample it down , more straw , trample it down . |
| 29 | ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’ |
| 30 | He had been sitting all evening in exactly the spot from which the gun had been fired . |