Example sentences of "a bad day " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel at first that on a bad day ( there are quite a few ) Patrick might give it one of the kicks that the novelist seems about to direct at his readers . |
| 2 | This is a bad day for Patrick , who had volunteered that Simon was ‘ one of a certain … persuasion ’ . |
| 3 | Oh aye , it was a bad day for the house of Bolfracks — no doubt about it — very bad — oh aye . |
| 4 | Even on a bad day he is worth watching , for a few seconds of his lightning , elegant attacks eclipses an evening of mauling aggression . |
| 5 | Little did I know how right he was because the first thing that happened when David 's mother had a bad day , she would call me everything under the sun . |
| 6 | Compared with the other great all-rounders of his time , Imran Khan , Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev , he is certainly the best batsman and best slip fielder , but Hadlee and Imran are more dangerous bowlers , and much less likely to have a bad day . |
| 7 | Pictures of old , tired faces : Madge 's made vacant by drugs , Bella 's grey with pain on a bad day , threw themselves like projected images on to the white kitchen wall . |
| 8 | No kidding , it was a bad day , a mean day , an ugly day , a ‘ shoot-me-before-I-go-mad ’ sort of day . |
| 9 | She was watching a poor demented man , obviously having a bad day , hacking his way up the fairway towards her . |
| 10 | It was a bad day . |
| 11 | The child who comes home saying , ‘ I hate school ’ , learns that it is not everything about school that she dislikes when her mother says ‘ It 's been a bad day today , has n't it ? |
| 12 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox . |
| 13 | When they 've got a bad day , I find they want love . ’ |
| 14 | He often succeeds in making his playing sound almost improvisatory , just as Poulenc himself did , but unlike the composer on a bad day , Tacchino is also scrupulously accurate . ( ) |
| 15 | Instead of a freeze-dried New England accent , Phillips gives us a combination of weird sister , deranged Southern matron and Mary Martin on a bad day . |
| 16 | If she 's in a good mood she 'll time Ted 's egg by the 8.05 to Edinburgh ; on the other hand , on a bad day she 'll shout at Ted to make his own bloody breakfast and curse at Frieda for wasting good food on her plate . |
| 17 | ‘ This might make conservative , this , ’ says Clint , thinking back to his recent viewing of Basic Instinct , ’ but I think it 's a bad day , me , when people like Michael Douglas are seen fookin' noshing on a woman 's minge . |
| 18 | You might be 37 or 42 when you suddenly see your reflection on a bad day and are shocked to discover you 're not the 32 you feel inside . |
| 19 | ‘ Ah , go on , Mam , you 'd need tea on a bad day like this , ’ Patsy said encouragingly . |
| 20 | It was a rainy day , a bad day in the heart . |
| 21 | One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ . |
| 22 | To complete a bad day , Souness has had an FA warning following remarks he made about referee Stephen Lodge after the goalless draw with Southampton at Anfield last February . |
| 23 | ‘ That was a bad day , but I 'm hopeful of a lot better luck on All At Sea . |
| 24 | Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars . |
| 25 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 26 | A bad day at Black Rock : both Solomon Brothers and more importantly Goldman Sachs have moved Sun stock off their recommended buy lists . |
| 27 | What had started out as a bad day had suddenly become brighter . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'ad a bad day , ’ he said . |
| 29 | It is more important to achieve a difficult target on a bad day than a good one because it will increase your confidence still further . |
| 30 | It is very important not to simply write it off completely as ‘ a bad day ’ just because things have gone wrong . |