Example sentences of "a bad day " in BNC.

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31 We pushed down , the route-finding difficult and the weather like Scotland on a bad day , wet and misty .
32 1 How do you wear eyeliner past the age of 20 without looking like Cleopatra on a bad day ?
33 I 'm sorry , I 've had a bad day . ’
34 It might not be a bad day .
35 As many fishkeepers , and probably all cichlidophiles , know the Lake Malawi Mbuna are fish of rocky habitats , with behavioural habits sometimes reminiscent on occasions , to Ghenghis Khan on a bad day .
36 It was a bad day , that day .
37 ‘ It 's not such a bad day — sort of interesting , ’ she said .
38 However , on a bad day chaos reigns , and nobody can predict a likely departure time .
39 We knew we had Roseanne Barr 's capacity to be fat and sexy and , on a bad day , any one of us could be Grace Jones — Terminator 3 ?
40 When he 's had a bad day he looks really sad .
41 If he said ‘ Good morning , men ! ’ as he passed by then it might not be such a bad day .
42 School Social Worker is here and has had a bad day .
43 ‘ It was a bad day , mother .
44 They had a bad day in the office .
45 Not a bad day : watery sun , noisy traffic churning round the roundabout , pedestrians kicking through debris in understreet tunnels .
46 You know , the one where you sit there and lie through your teeth about spending every waking hour flossing and probing and massaging and never go out of an evening without your single-headed brush , and the Aussie hygienist who looks like Brooke Shields on a good day takes one prod at your gum and it spouts blood like Moby Dick on a bad day and the game 's up there and then .
47 He might well be creating havoc with her pulse-rate , but he was only doing it to comfort her after a bad day ; it did n't mean there was anything personal in the action .
48 ’ Yes , Sunday can be a bad day .
49 As luck would have it we 've chosen a bad day to join him .
50 That 's not a bad day 's work for a lad , I 'd say . ’
51 If magistrates no longer apply the natural principles of justice , it is a bad day for our law .
52 ‘ It was a bad day and we only caught about 2lb 6oz but it was enough to land the trophy , 2 added Alf , a foreman in the fabrication department .
53 This needs to be done on such occasions , to make people feel involved and committed — they are then more likely to turn up , even on a bad day !
54 ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’
55 A Sheila na gigh which now resembled Beirut on a bad day .
56 Well , a bad day all round .
57 Some of the guys who are going for 10 million these days would n't even tie Cuntonas boots on a bad day .
58 It 's a bad day .
59 You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that .
60 ‘ She 's having a bad day , ’ came the wry explanation .
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