Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 2 | Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion . |
| 3 | D' ya know I think , I think , I think it has been out this year . |
| 4 | He 'd been up all night . |
| 5 | He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket . |
| 6 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
| 7 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 8 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
| 9 | So she 'd been out all day to this cousin 's at Blakely She goes on a Monday now . |
| 10 | Must of been , cos they 'd been out all day . |
| 11 | So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises . |
| 12 | As late as 1863 he could still assure his mother that he might turn his attention to almost any subject , but it must have been around this time that a first decision in favour of classics was taken , even though it was not until 1865 at Leipzig that his academic specialization became complete . |
| 13 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
| 14 | it would have been about that time , yes , or soon after |
| 15 | what 's happening is that the membership handbook should have been out last week but I think it 's actually going out physically today and I 've done a reminder which 'll be mailed out with it erm making one or two little pointed remarks about blah blah blah this is a very important event and please note it is not in Edinburgh you know erm S S K are very supportive of us we should you know take advantage of this very important |
| 16 | However , having been off last week , I have n't been able to do that , but I have made all the amendments and I was only going to talk us through those that needed everybody to know about them . |
| 17 | Trudging back one evening , having been out all day and having had no luck , Charles spotted a large heap of rocks on the hillside above them , and asked what it was . |
| 18 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 19 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 20 | It looked as if both men had been up all night . |
| 21 | He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night . |
| 22 | ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them . |
| 23 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 24 | Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms . |
| 25 | Zbo , who had been out all day trying to sell his paintings , returned to find Modigliani sleeping off his drunken stupor on their sofa . |
| 26 | I had been out all day with my gun , but without success . |
| 27 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 28 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 29 | They had been out all morning considering the case . |
| 30 | He was still wearing the same clothes he 'd worn that afternoon , and Juliet wondered if he had been out that evening , and who with . |