Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 2 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 3 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 4 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 6 | She must have been straining all day . |
| 7 | ‘ We ca n't have been running all day . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 9 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall . |
| 12 | It was dusk , it was wet , and Nicholas had been riding all day . |
| 13 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 16 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 17 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 18 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That 's why the windows of the houses are so small — so that they do n't have to see where they 've been working all day long . |
| 21 | I 've been wondering all day whether or not to own up to this . |
| 22 | I have been waiting each day to hear if you had decided to marry that idiot in England . ’ |
| 23 | This idea of a running commentary is shown on pg 59 where he tells the reader what various characters of the play have been doing that day . |
| 24 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 25 | He 's mending car , he 's been working all day and now he 's mending car |
| 26 | Yeah , he 's been working all day Paul |
| 27 | It 's been selling all day . |
| 28 | It 's been banging all day because I ca n't be bothered to go out there and shut it . |