Example sentences of "[be] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I forgot you 're a day late with your information . |
| 2 | They must be seventy if they 're a day , Jezrael realized , and wondered who she 'd be with when she was that old . |
| 3 | But they make me die because you , you you 're a day , I mean we got this sort of letter the bailiffs were coming in because we were a day late . |
| 4 | It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later . |
| 5 | Liese said , ‘ This has been a day of great accomplishments . ’ |
| 6 | It must have been a day or two afterwards that she had seen the picture . |
| 7 | It had without doubt been a day to remember and now whenever I look at my LNWR Boilerhouse Private plate , I think of poor unfortunate Fred Grisenthwaite and his tragic demise , and then recall the Railway Hotel bar room and the kind friends I met that night . |
| 8 | It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons . |
| 9 | There has never been a day , nor yet an hour , when I have not ached for the loss of that which existed before Lucifer led his followers against the gods . |
| 10 | A few moments later he raised his head , to catch a gasp of breath and then to mutter softly in her ear , ‘ There has n't been a day — or night — in the last four years when I have n't missed you . |
| 11 | It had been a day of rare pleasure for Harry , climaxed by lunch with Heather at the villa . |
| 12 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
| 13 | For my part , there can hardly have been a day when I did not think of Eliot , when his growing prestige was not a source of immense satisfaction and pride to me , and when personal news about him , however brief , was more than welcome at such distance than propinquity without meeting would have been . |
| 14 | It had been a day of many upsets . |
| 15 | I do n't think in the history of Scottish rock music has there ever been a day that has been celebrated so well . |
| 16 | And its been a day of tumbling wickets — with Worcestershire forced to follow on after a disastrous morning at the crease … |
| 17 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 18 | That would have been a day tomorrow . |
| 19 | The drachma is the unofficial currency of southern Albania ; four new 100-drachma coins , pointedly displaying Alexander the Great 's head , and worth $1.90 , are a day 's pay for a labourer there . |
| 20 | ‘ Thom called to say he 'd be a day late , and then he just hung up . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose there might be a day when I would move away from Australia as my permanent base , ’ she said . |
| 22 | ‘ This could be a day of destiny for Helmut Kohl , ’ wrote the popular Bild newspaper before the results were known . |
| 23 | It was turning out to be a day unlike any other he had spent at Gibbet Hall . |
| 24 | There will then be a day 's walk in the local area before returning to Soll and your hotel . |
| 25 | At the new master 's decree , today was to be a day of merrymaking : workers from his nearby shoe factory had been specially brought in by charabanc , and a syndicate of local industrialists had also gathered for the festivities . |
| 26 | The ‘ unit of workload ’ can be a day in hospital , a diagnostic test or a particular procedure , but more recently has been in the form of a case . |
| 27 | LIDBA , the businessmen 's association , are determined that June 14th will not only be a day of entertainment and fun for all the family , it will be remembered as the day pedal power came into its own . |
| 28 | THERE will be a Day of Renewal at St Theresa 's Church , Blacon , on January 23 , 1993 , from 10.30–4pm , when the speaker will be Nigel Bavidge . |
| 29 | The book of Genesis tells how God had created the world in six days and commanded the seventh to be a day of rest . |
| 30 | It might be a day or it might be a year . ’ |