Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] [det] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'll have been awake all night , thinking and thinking and thinking . |
| 2 | Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing . |
| 3 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 4 | Many had been awake all night , listening with increasing horror to the first confused reports of the massacre in Peking . |
| 5 | She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap . |
| 6 | Trade had been bad that night so she thought he 'd be her last trick . |
| 7 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |
| 8 | I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’ |
| 9 | Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now . |
| 10 | The Turkish slaughtermen offer the ubiquitous Turkish tea , a strong bitter brew known as chi , which invariably precedes all conversations , and the RAOC Master Butcher and his three British and two Belgian butchers , who have been busy all night cutting and jointing , now prepare themselves to assist in the slaughter of the cattle and sheep . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been alone all night ! |