Example sentences of "have [verb] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RAF Squadron which claims to have accidently dropped the first bomb on Nazi Germany , has reached the final day in its long history . |
| 2 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 3 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 4 | My best man , Alan , has made everything go smoothly , and made his contribution to what has seemed the perfect day . |
| 5 | The only stains left on his hands were a few stubborn traces of India ink , left from the drawings of Sara he 'd finished the previous day . |
| 6 | Pete Woodward got one of the dead centres and he felt he 'd erased the previous day 's disaster . |
| 7 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 8 | That one small doubt became a huge question mark two days later when , before the opening home game with Arsenal , Knighton took the field in a United playing strip ( having refused the previous day to be photographed holding a United shirt ) and juggled , headed and kicked a football in front of a at first incredulous and then delighted Stretford End . |
| 9 | Having spent the whole day listening to the contenders , I did not want to look at the list — I felt certain that my name would not appear . |
| 10 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 11 | Her husband would have spent the whole day cooking for the steady stream of customers in the small , steamy back kitchen below and she felt that he needed a break . |
| 12 | Mr Healey had said he was himself knackered that morning , having returned the previous day , very late , from a seminar in Florence , and taken a dose of the cough mixture Benylin to get to sleep , which he found worked better than Mogadon . |
| 13 | On March 28 Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut , 58 , who had resigned the previous day as Army C.-in-C. , announced that he would be joining the government as a Deputy Prime Minister and as Minister of Defence , ending widespread speculation about his political plans . |
| 14 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |
| 15 | Father Paddy had rung the previous day to give them the news from Rosstrevor . |
| 16 | On the 31st May this year Hilda Hyam , correctly dressed in a blue leotard and a pink rose , celebrated her ninetieth birthday in style , for her fellow teachers in Avon had organised the perfect day just for her : — classes morning and afternoon interspersed with coffee — a tasty lunch — and a delicious tea complete with a birthday cake . |
| 17 | On the 31st May this year Hilda Hyam , correctly dressed in a blue leotard and a pink rose , celebrated her ninetieth birthday in style , for her fellow teachers in Avon had organised the perfect day just for her : — classes morning and afternoon interspersed with coffee — a tasty lunch — and a delicious tea complete with a birthday cake . |
| 18 | Ronan had picked the wrong day for this story . |
| 19 | He seemed quite a different man from the one she had met the other day across Mr. Crowther 's desk , quite different from the man who talked to Jenny this afternoon . |
| 20 | Two girls sat down to make a picture together of the river they had seen the previous day . |
| 21 | Mrs Redmond talked about Bridie 's babies , whom she had seen the previous day , and asked Anne about her grandmother . |
| 22 | The Blue Mosque , which Owen had seen the previous day on his visit to the bazaars , was a dervish mosque , used almost exclusively by such as the Zikr . |
| 23 | While the rump Collective State Presidency had said the previous day that it would not accept any decision reached by the peace conference , of the six republics attending the conference , Serbia was the only one to reject the proposals ; even Montenegro accepted , provoking internal political disputes in that republic . |
| 24 | As I said , I was somewhat annoyed in view of the definitive nature of the arrangement I had made the previous day , and the fact that no explanation or apology had been forthcoming . |
| 25 | On being asked what was wrong , she explained that his wife , on an adjacent ward , had died the previous day . |
| 26 | Although , I sa , but I hope they 've got the right day ! |
| 27 | Humberto Celli , president of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , announced on May 22 that the leaderships of both the AD and the main opposition Social Christian Party ( COPEI ) had agreed the previous day on a joint " platform of understanding " . |
| 28 | " Dozens " of policemen had demonstrated the previous day against the judicial system , the media and immigrant Colombians . |
| 29 | It was as if those grey eyes could see into the very depths of her soul , stirring the desire that lay there waiting to be aroused , as each of them recalled the passion they had shared the previous day . |
| 30 | Caro had spent the preceding day cleaning and tidying , but her mother had come determined to disapprove and did so easily . |