Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’ |
| 2 | And I looked , I wrote the first one , first class answer and I thought , this is a doddle , and I 'd done three days then or two nights without kip , and I sort of and erm suddenly I f and I went Smith nineteen forty ? |
| 3 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 4 | This statement , from two ladies as eccentric and charmingly Irish as anyone I 'd met that day , just about summed up my own feelings . |
| 5 | I 'd spent all day going there had n't I , half a day going there . |
| 6 | The tanker was the only vehicle I had seen all day . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I had waited 385 days to see him , the one I love ’ ; ‘ I love Morrissey ’ ; ‘ How could anyone be as wonderful as he is ? ’ |
| 9 | I had waited 385 days to see him , the one I love . |
| 10 | Yet that he could talk , and well , I had discovered that day in the car . |
| 11 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 12 | Prior to Arran I had walked long days sometimes speaking to no one and moving through completely new landscapes . |
| 13 | I had arrived two days too late . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was tired of all the conversations I had had that day and wanted to glamorise my life . |
| 16 | Fortunately , I 've outgrown those days . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've waited two days for you . |
| 18 | ‘ The first friendly words I 've heard all day . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've had better days ! ’ he drawled . |
| 20 | Cos the thing is I 've got two days left of this thing . |
| 21 | I 've got odd days and then a six week block . |
| 22 | I 've got all day and I 'm being paid . ’ |
| 23 | Now , what I do then , is , because I know this is going to happen , when I 'm planning my month , if I 've got some days towards the end of the month where I have no claimants whatsoever , I put the asterisks in there and that 's a catch up day . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've got another day off tomorrow , ’ said Juliet . |
| 25 | I got , I 've got a we , I 've got ten days to do that in . |
| 26 | I am not mad , most noble Festus , but in sober sadness I have suffered this day more bodily pain than I had before a conception of . |
| 27 | Ash End House Farm was such a success for parents and children that I have organised another day out for the Christmas Holidays . |
| 28 | I have spent all day there . |
| 29 | Melanie , a working mother , is contracted to work four hours a day , but , said Bob , ‘ even though she has the time consuming task of caring for her baby , when the situation has arisen , she has worked full days in order to ensure the smooth running of her team . ’ |
| 30 | If you worked four , you were worse off than if you worked three , you know , you 'd got three days on th er and you got you got three days dole , er unemployment pay . |