Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferguson 's phone has been hot all summer as opposition managers enquired about Hughes ' availability . |
| 2 | His work rate has been prodigious all season , and although he may not have the quickest service around , he must rate currently as the world 's no 1 scrum-half . |
| 3 | This week the County Ground in Swindon has been open all hours … thirty six thousand tickets have been sold … goodness knows how many scarves and souvenirs … |
| 4 | Moving Waddle from the right wing , where he performed so imaginatively against the Italians , in order to accommodate Rocastle , whose form has been patchy all season , is another selection open to doubt . |
| 5 | Yes , but has been wet all day . |
| 6 | HEALTH : Lenny 's health has been excellent all summer . |
| 7 | it was in here it was sort of like , he 'd been niggly all day , he was tired , he sort of like knocked it over with his foot , and of course it went straight over the dry nappy that was laid out on the floor ready to put under him , I said oh that nappy |
| 8 | Well then th they must have been she said they 'd been concerned all day . |
| 9 | She 'll have been awake all night , thinking and thinking and thinking . |
| 10 | Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing . |
| 11 | But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter . |
| 12 | Many had been awake all night , listening with increasing horror to the first confused reports of the massacre in Peking . |
| 13 | She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap . |
| 14 | ( Perhaps the fact that the pubs had been open all day had something to do with that . ) |
| 15 | They had been active all week , unsettling me with their noise . |
| 16 | The defence which had been suspect all season became vulnerable and the forwards simply could not score goals , so poor Palace fell out of the bottom of Division Two . |
| 17 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |
| 18 | I 've been good all week |
| 19 | I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’ |
| 20 | I 've been agog all afternoon , waiting for the next episode in your mystery story . ’ |
| 21 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 22 | I 've been thirsty all evening ! |
| 23 | Hill 's press officer Don Payne said : ‘ We 've been busy all day . |
| 24 | We 've been busy all day . |
| 25 | Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now . |
| 26 | They 've been open all hours … at Kingsholm this week … running on overtime getting ready for a game that could simply make or break the season … you know what they say about it never raining … it 's been pouring on Gloucester this season … defeat for the Cherry and Whites tomorrow would put them on the relegation trapdoor … |
| 27 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 28 | The Turkish slaughtermen offer the ubiquitous Turkish tea , a strong bitter brew known as chi , which invariably precedes all conversations , and the RAOC Master Butcher and his three British and two Belgian butchers , who have been busy all night cutting and jointing , now prepare themselves to assist in the slaughter of the cattle and sheep . |
| 29 | Novel animal patterns such as these have been big all year — and they show no sign of disappearing just yet . |
| 30 | ‘ I have been alone all night ! |