Example sentences of "had been [adj] all [noun] " 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 | But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter . |
| 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 | ( Perhaps the fact that the pubs had been open all day had something to do with that . ) |
| 6 | They had been active all week , unsettling me with their noise . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 . |