Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah . |
| 2 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 3 | ‘ Kelly had been kicked all night and he thought it was going to happen again . |
| 4 | Miles had been surrounded all evening , it seemed , by droves of tinselled ladies . |
| 5 | The flat was sweltering although curtains had been drawn all day to keep the sun out . |