Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony tells us about his lone stay in the Westmann Islands off Iceland when I had to leave four days earlier than him . |
| 2 | The tanker was the only vehicle I had seen all day . |
| 3 | To my eyes the new pair of partridges were indistinguishable from any of the other birds I had seen that day , but the rest of the audience clearly thought otherwise . |
| 4 | I had to spend three days in bed and did n't really kick a ball in the build-up to the Highfield Road game . |
| 5 | I had to wait four days before I could risk flying her again . |
| 6 | ‘ I had waited 385 days to see him , the one I love ’ ; ‘ I love Morrissey ’ ; ‘ How could anyone be as wonderful as he is ? ’ |
| 7 | I had waited 385 days to see him , the one I love . |
| 8 | Yet that he could talk , and well , I had discovered that day in the car . |
| 9 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 10 | Prior to Arran I had walked long days sometimes speaking to no one and moving through completely new landscapes . |
| 11 | I had arrived two days too late . |
| 12 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 13 | I was tired of all the conversations I had had that day and wanted to glamorise my life . |
| 14 | Ridley had stated in an interview with the right-wing Spectator magazine which had appeared two days previously that European economic and monetary union was " a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe " and must be " thwarted " . |
| 15 | She was admitted to hospital on 21 January because of a productive cough and mild dyspnoea which had appeared four days earlier . |
| 16 | Progressively reducing the twenty Mk 1 sets by half , and acquiring from regular service stock a fleet of Mk 1 first open coaches , Ward put in hand a programme of vehicle refurbishment involving re-upholstering , recarpeting and curtain replacement and the fitting of individual table lamps , with the aim of restoring a level of respectability to coaches which had seen better days . |
| 17 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 18 | He was a cheery chap who wore a frock coat and a soiled black felt hat which had seen better days . |
| 19 | Hers was the ground floor flat of a tall old house which had seen better days and the communal front door was reached by means of three stone steps . |
| 20 | Hannah smiled , pulled out a stool ( which had seen better days ) and began to play . |
| 21 | Two men stood there , one tall and masked , the other a small , weasel-eyed individual dressed in a dirty leather jerkin , hose and boots which had seen better days . |
| 22 | Malpass 's car was a five-year-old Vauxhall which had seen better days , but then have n't we all . |
| 23 | She wore grubby jeans , torn at the knees , and an unironed acrylic sweater which had seen better days . |
| 24 | You got your sugar ration in the morning which had to last all day : one egg cup full , a red plastic egg cup with ER on the bottom . |
| 25 | He is picking his way through the Moscow Record of 27 November 1869 , and there he reads about a murder which had occurred six days earlier . |
| 26 | Using his binoculars , he watched the ball roll to within a few feet of the bunker into which he himself had dived that day when he had played with Richie , Dr. Stevie and Sir Bryan . |
| 27 | Sally Ann Cattell died in a stolen car which crashed during a police chase last March , but the SSD denied reports that she had absconded from the children 's home , St John 's in Erdington , to which she had moved three days before the incident . |
| 28 | Why , she had seen better days , thought Ianthe in surprise , for the Miss Grimes she had known in the library , with her raffish appearance and slight Cockney accent , had not suggested anything like this . |
| 29 | ‘ It will be everyone from Bill 's office , plus other assorted friends … and Tom of course , ’ she had explained several days ago . |
| 30 | Such things she had heard this day ! |