Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never had a day 's illness in her life , but Timothy 's future was beginning to prey on her mind . |
| 2 | Hours lost , days lost , weeks , months … it 's a pity that we did not have a day together to mull & muse … however , 't was lovely to see you , to see you , lovely . |
| 3 | He had to be fifty , but he did not look a day over thirty-five , an illusion helped by his lopsided boyish grin that was so very full of charm . |
| 4 | I did n't look a day older . |
| 5 | And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ . |
| 6 | Harriet , who had hardly had a day 's illness in her life — unless she counted a bad attack of shingles some years previously — had at first been inclined to ignore her husband 's remarks . |
| 7 | At Howard she had hardly known a day 's illness . |
| 8 | It is obvious that Smith 's assessment is coloured by his self-revealing remark that ‘ Coleman had never done a day 's soldiering in his life , and for that reason alone was incapable of leading and directing ’ . |