Example sentences of "have be a [adj] day and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remained there for what must have been an anxious day and a night while the elephant returned to and from a nearby stream with trunkfuls of water with which it was finally able to loosen the roots of the tree , push it over , then trample its victim just as his belated rescue-party arrived on the scene . |
| 2 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
| 3 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
| 4 | It had been a hard day and the river could be a severe taskmaster at times . |
| 5 | ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round . |
| 6 | It had been a lovely day and Nick sang all the way home because of it , one of his tuneless , made-up nonsense songs . |
| 7 | It had been a beastly day and Caroline had been so silly at supper . |