Example sentences of "have [been] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night . |
| 32 | ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them . |
| 33 | He had been up seventeen hours . |
| 34 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 35 | The mast had been up three months and Kaptan still had one week of his vacation left when Osvaldo made his move . |
| 36 | Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one . |
| 37 | He had been up half the previous night upon a quite different case , and all this night upon this , which had only just become a case , and his , after all . |
| 38 | Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms . |
| 39 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 40 | Zbo , who had been out all day trying to sell his paintings , returned to find Modigliani sleeping off his drunken stupor on their sofa . |
| 41 | I had been out all day with my gun , but without success . |
| 42 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 43 | They had been out all morning considering the case . |
| 44 | Knocker had been out that particular night which had been very fortunate for the seaman . |
| 45 | He was still wearing the same clothes he 'd worn that afternoon , and Juliet wondered if he had been out that evening , and who with . |
| 46 | He had been out three nights last week . |
| 47 | Charles and Ann had been out several times together , there had been no aggression , and they were being more affectionate . |
| 48 | Sarella had been back two days and her feet had scarcely touched the ground . |
| 49 | Lachy had been back one time afterwards that she knew of , a year later , and he had called , but she 'd told him she would n't be able to see him , and put the phone down on him . |
| 50 | Play was end to end in the first half , but catching Bicester cold after a player had been down injured for some time , Wantage took the lead on thirty five minutes , when Andy Cooper brilliantly volleyed home a touch on from Jamie Alexander for a one nil half time lead . |
| 51 | That he had been down some time , and that there were a Nest of them at Alfoxden House who were protected by a Mr Poole a Tanner of this Town . ’ |
| 52 | Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games . |
| 53 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 54 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
| 55 | I 've been up all night working on these . ’ |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | I 've been up all night . |
| 58 | There she blows , it 's your mama hello , yeah we 've been up half er , since half past , about eight o'clock yeah , we 'll be round at nine o'clock , okay , bye . |
| 59 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 60 | I 've been back 4 times and they know me . |