Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since December , the strip has not known a day of quiet : the clashes between the Israeli army and Palestinian demonstrators are fought in towns and villages as well as in the eight refugee camps . |
| 2 | This has now become a day when children are given sweets , titbits and fruit . |
| 3 | The baker who has n't lost a day 's work in seventy five years . |
| 4 | And like all great stars , he has n't aged a day in all those years . |
| 5 | She has n't had a day 's illness in her life . ’ |
| 6 | A baker who has n't had a day off sick in three quarters of a century is still slaving over a hot stove at the age of ( 87 ) eighty-seven . |
| 7 | Yet is that not exactly what the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) and his hon. Friends are advocating , through the establishment of a national investment bank and a host of other measures — despite the fact that the hon. Gentleman has never done a day 's work in industry in his life ? |
| 8 | She 'd never had a day 's illness in her life , but Timothy 's future was beginning to prey on her mind . |
| 9 | Having recently spent a day at the Whitechapel Open I would strongly urge that some consideration for selection should be introduced . |
| 10 | I 'm a Sunderland supporter who lives down here , I 've only had a day 's notice . |
| 11 | So like , you 've only got a day and a half have n't you ? |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Look , I 've not planned a day ashore this time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At Howard she had hardly known a day 's illness . |
| 16 | It 's two years since my … er … incident and you 've hardly had a day off ever since — you 've fussed around me like a mother hen . |
| 17 | I 've never missed a day 's work through illness in my life and I 'm still rushing around the country appearing in theatres and clubs . |
| 18 | If you 've never had a day 's illness in your life , it 's hard to imagine the financial disruption that can be caused by sudden hospitalisation . |
| 19 | Apart from that I 've never had a day 's illness in my life ; never been in bed a whole day . |
| 20 | I 've never had a day 's illness in my life , thank you very much . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | By the time he is up in the morning , I have already done a day 's work … |
| 23 | Och i do n't know why they 're moving it down there , it 's already got a day unit on fifteen . |
| 24 | The officer I have been escorting is a most pleasant chap , and I have really had a day 's holiday . |
| 25 | The last time I had an office job was in 1986 — it was a disaster , and I 'm pleased to be able to say that I have n't done a day 's work since . |
| 26 | ‘ I play hockey and I have never missed a day through sickness in 17 years , even with torn muscles and ligaments , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Some of these people have never left this area of town , have never passed a day of their lives without seeing , if not entering , the Church of Santa Maria . |