Example sentences of "it have be [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 .
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