Example sentences of "have been [adv] all [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been there all night sleeping on a bench .
2 well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time .
3 In the end we just let the audience in or we 'd have been there all day . ’
4 Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’
5 He may have been there all night . ’
6 They had been together all morning , but little had been said .
7 ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’
8 Shelley , you 've been here all day .
9 I 've been here all morning .
10 You 've been there all day and ca n't remember !
11 have been here all day , wo n't she ?
12 The youngest of all have been here all morning , waddling in snow up to their arm-pits .
13 They have been together all day . ’
14 Kathy those documents have been there all week and you not taken the trouble to look at them but you will quip about the poll tax and its iniquities but you ca n't even read your own poll tax notice .
15 ‘ No , she 's been here all night .
16 He 's been here all afternoon , in fact .
17 ‘ It 's been here all afternoon , ’ the lay brother murmured , handing him a thin roll of vellum .
18 David 's been away all week ?
19 She 's been away all week
20 that 's been there all day , come on Deana , if you 're gon na have the lamp on you 're gon na have to put something away , some books or is that packet any good now ?
21 Well I 'm not doing tea , Alistare can do it , he 's been home all day !
22 He 's been home all day .
23 Yes , he 's been home all day I 'm not doing it tonight !
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