Example sentences of "have been [adj] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light over No. 6 which has been burning night and day for 2 months , now operates as it should — from dusk to dawn . |
| 2 | There has been another night of trouble on a estate notorious for joyriding . |
| 3 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 4 | God knows where she 'd been last night . ’ |
| 5 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 6 | It might have been that night I dreamed |
| 7 | ‘ It must have been last night ! ’ |
| 8 | There had been many nights like this , and she had been furiously ridden before , as now , by this tireless Mighty One , face fixed in the inhuman lineaments of lust . |
| 9 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 10 | For the previous ten months London and provincial cities had been bombed night after night ( on 10 May , three thousand Londoners were killed in the raids ) ; although the worst of the blitz was now over , no one knew it then , and at this perilous juncture in the war Eliot had been anxiously writing against time . |
| 11 | That had been last night . |
| 12 | The plate from which he had eaten his hamburgers and frozen green beans , which had been last night 's supper , still unrinsed in the sink ; the splatter of grease marks above the ancient gas stove ; the viscous mess of grime gumming the narrow gap between stove and cupboard ; the soiled and smelly teacloth hanging from its hook at the side of the sink ; last year 's calendar askew on its nail ; the two open shelves jammed with a conglomeration of half-used cereal packets , jars of stale jam , cracked mugs , packets of detergent ; the cheap , unstable table with its two chairs , their backs grubby from numerous clutching hands ; the linoleum curving at the wall where it had become unstuck ; the general air of discomfort , uncaring , negligence , dirt . |
| 13 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 14 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |