Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [noun] all [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old man had been plagued by visitors all week . |
| 2 | Have been walking around London all day . |
| 3 | The material included on any demo tape , to gain the attention of A&R staff who are listening to tapes all week , should be strong properly presented and preferably original . |
| 4 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 5 | It had been pouring with rain all day , and half the yard was a quagmire . |
| 6 | Have you been flooded with greetings all day , sir ? |
| 7 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |
| 8 | It may not impress you , but there 's a man I should be defending in court all day , and it 's nearly dawn . |
| 9 | Peter , I know you 've been talking to delegates all day , what 's the atmosphere like there ? * |
| 10 | It has been standing in water all day , and it has been well scraped before it came out this evening . |
| 11 | And all the people that had stallions South been left in Orkney all Winter somebody had kept them . |
| 12 | Here oak is useful , because it does n't mind being soaked in water all winter , although it will probably split as it dries out in summer . |
| 13 | A human would have heard the click and buzz of crickets and other small mysterious creatures whose role in life is to sit in bushes all night and make noises that are a lot bigger than they are . |
| 14 | If you 're the one who 's stayed at home all day , tackling the house and looking after the kids , you 'll want to celebrate the homecoming of everyone else and the chance the talk over the day 's happenings . |
| 15 | So maybe he 's playing with Tom all day today ? |
| 16 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |