Example sentences of "[pron] had been [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came up to me with , I noticed , slightly less bounce in her step than there had been the previous day . |
| 2 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
| 3 | Mr Devlin said afterwards it had been a great day in Yarm 's history . |
| 4 | It had been a gloomy day which suddenly burst into splendour in the evening , the clouds rising behind the fields in the setting sun like mountains ( if only they had been ! ) and above , a darkening amethyst sky with — the finishing touch — a rose pink filigree disc of a moon foreshadowing the peace and perfection of a moonlit night . |
| 5 | It had been a tiring day , largely because it had been so unproductive . |
| 6 | But it had been a good day . |
| 7 | It had been a melancholic day , although Winston Churchill had at last been called into the War Cabinet , gracing its inaugural meeting as First Lord of the Admiralty . |
| 8 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |
| 9 | It had been a long day . ’ |
| 10 | He then telephoned Nigel 's relations for me , for which I was most grateful — it had been a long day . |
| 11 | It had been a long day — twelve hours with Mobuto , eight of those in the United Nations building where Mobuto and his entourage had spent the day . |
| 12 | It had been a long day . |
| 13 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
| 14 | It had been a long day at the end of a busy week , but that was n't all of it . |
| 15 | It had been a long day . |
| 16 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
| 17 | It had been a long day for our guests , as they had left La Loupe at 1Opm on the Friday evening , so it was home to bed for a good night 's sleep , ready for a full day exploring on the Sunday . |
| 18 | It had been a long day — the children safely delivered to Grandma , the freezer full of food ( for a husband to cope on his own ) , leotards and tights packed along with all the other paraphernalia needed for a Medau display . |
| 19 | It had been a pleasant day out for both four-man teams , basking in the sun , playing cards , talking about women and in the afternoon watching ‘ Grandstand ’ on their television set . |
| 20 | It had been a heady day when she noticed the photograph no longer in a place of honour , on the chest of drawers , but moved to a shelf where it could hardly be seen , and then face down , and then in the bottom of a drawer . |
| 21 | It had been a normal day . |
| 22 | It had been a humiliating day for Flora and she bore the Bishop a grudge in consequence . |
| 23 | Hari rubbed her hand over her eyes , it had been a strange day , an eventful one in which she had quite clearly made an enemy but perhaps she had also made a friend of Edward Morris . |
| 24 | Yes , Nicandra thought , it had been a difficult day , what with everything . |
| 25 | It had been a beastly day and Caroline had been so silly at supper . |
| 26 | It had been a white day , white blank sky , white thin sun , warmish and dull . |
| 27 | ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round . |
| 28 | It had been a nail-biting day glued to the television . |
| 29 | It had been a hard day . |
| 30 | It had been a hard day and the river could be a severe taskmaster at times . |