Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] all [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying :
2 A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night .
3 This row , this argument had been brewing all season long .
4 Harbury had been failing all day to reach Wickham , which was especially frustrating as Wickham was in the same building and Harbury felt proprietorial about the crime .
5 The pair had been drinking all day and Jones downed more than 10 pints , while Miss Smith , 29 , drank six or seven pints of cider , Nottingham Crown Court was told yesterday .
6 But others had been celebrating all night .
7 It was dusk , it was wet , and Nicholas had been riding all day .
8 Work colleague Melvyn Robinson of Bouch Street , Shildon , said he believed Mr Hughes had been drinking all afternoon .
9 The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day .
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