Example sentences of "it [verb] [been] [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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1 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
2 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
3 | ‘ I do n't usually do that , but it has been a long day . ’ |
4 | God it 's only quarter past two , it has been a long day in n it ? |
5 | It has been a good day for them . |
6 | ‘ It has been a memorable day . |
7 | It has been a difficult day for the Queen and tonight she 's been snubbed following the decision by the municipality of Limassol not to present her with the keys to the town . |
8 | It has been a tiresome day . |
9 | Dixie says it has been a busy day . |
10 | But it 'd been a good day last year , on the Monday holiday , and they had needed two coaches you see . |
11 | Cos I thought it 'd been a nice day we could of nipped down to Sainsbury 's |
12 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
13 | Mr Devlin said afterwards it had been a great day in Yarm 's history . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | It had been a tiring day , largely because it had been so unproductive . |
16 | But it had been a good day . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |
19 | It had been a long day . ’ |
20 | He then telephoned Nigel 's relations for me , for which I was most grateful — it had been a long day . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | It had been a long day . |
23 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
24 | It had been a long day at the end of a busy week , but that was n't all of it . |
25 | It had been a long day . |
26 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |