Example sentences of "had been [adj] [adj] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 3 | Many had been awake all night , listening with increasing horror to the first confused reports of the massacre in Peking . |
| 4 | She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap . |
| 5 | Trade had been bad that night so she thought he 'd be her last trick . |
| 6 | Fernando 's escaladun had been wonderful last night and not direct from the freezer . |
| 7 | Masha had been fine last night , but we really could n't afford any more dreams or letters . |
| 8 | 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 . |