Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |
| 32 | She had had a gruelling day on top of a gruelling six months . |
| 33 | ‘ You have had a successful day , Alexai Ybreska ? ’ |
| 34 | If you have spent a long day on the airfield , it will be difficult to refuse your turn to fly , even if you are tired . |
| 35 | Dad motioned us not to disturb her : ‘ She 's 'ad a busy day . ’ |
| 36 | She 's tired , she 's had a busy day , so |
| 37 | Yeah , she 's had a busy day ! |
| 38 | ‘ She 's had a wonderful day . |
| 39 | So she has to go on a a Monday night , and she 's had a few day courses as well . |
| 40 | As luck would have it we 've chosen a bad day to join him . |
| 41 | And , by your own admission , we 've got a heavy day tomorrow . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ Well , we 've had a nice day and no one can take it away from us , ’ he would remark contentedly . |
| 43 | We 've had a lovely day , have n't we Arthur ? |
| 44 | We had had a superb day 's climbing , and to say his death was tragic is an understatement . |
| 45 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |
| 46 | When they 've got a bad day , I find they want love . ’ |
| 47 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 48 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 49 | They had enjoyed a happy day and it seemed to Carrie that Seb had noticed her , really noticed her , as a young woman for the very first time . |
| 50 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 51 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 52 | The barman looked like he 'd had a long day 's journey into night , although the monocle and the silk smoking-jacket were as natty as ninepence . |
| 53 | The CO sat in another rain-washed tent to receive Charles 's fairly smart salute and ask him if he 'd had a good day . |
| 54 | Well not too early because he 'd had a hard day . |
| 55 | Anyway , he disappeared soon after you left — told Stella he 'd had a heavy day and was off to bed with a book . |
| 56 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 57 | By limiting itself to cautious probing on the 21st ( all except for the disobedient von Zwehl who had registered the day 's only success ) , it had lost a valuable day . |
| 58 | It had taken a full day for Merymose to obtain permission for Huy to visit the embalmer . |
| 59 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 60 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |