Example sentences of "had been [adv prt] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It looked as if both men had been up all night . |
| 4 | He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night . |
| 5 | ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one . |
| 8 | He had been up half the previous night upon a quite different case , and all this night upon this , which had only just become a case , and his , after all . |
| 9 | Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms . |
| 10 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 11 | Zbo , who had been out all day trying to sell his paintings , returned to find Modigliani sleeping off his drunken stupor on their sofa . |
| 12 | I had been out all day with my gun , but without success . |
| 13 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 14 | They had been out all morning considering the case . |
| 15 | Knocker had been out that particular night which had been very fortunate for the seaman . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Charles and Ann had been out several times together , there had been no aggression , and they were being more affectionate . |
| 18 | That he had been down some time , and that there were a Nest of them at Alfoxden House who were protected by a Mr Poole a Tanner of this Town . ’ |