Example sentences of "have [be] [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 2 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't usually do that , but it has been a long day . ’ |
| 4 | God it 's only quarter past two , it has been a long day in n it ? |
| 5 | ‘ It has been a memorable day . |
| 6 | And the Cid assembled his chief captains and knights and people , and said unto them , Kinsmen and friends and vassals , hear me : to-day has been a good day , and to-morrow shall be a better day . |
| 7 | It has been a good day for them . |
| 8 | It has been a difficult day for the Queen and tonight she 's been snubbed following the decision by the municipality of Limassol not to present her with the keys to the town . |
| 9 | It has been a tiresome day . |
| 10 | Dixie says it has been a busy day . |
| 11 | But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being . |
| 12 | This has been the saddest day of my life … |
| 13 | Cos I thought it 'd been a nice day we could of nipped down to Sainsbury 's |
| 14 | But it 'd been a good day last year , on the Monday holiday , and they had needed two coaches you see . |
| 15 | There 'd been a whole day 's racing at Goodwood , two afternoons at Wimbledon for the semi-finals and finals , the Eton and Harrow cricket match , a day at Henley and invitations to lunch and dinner parties , the theatre , the opera and then on to one of the nightclubs . |
| 16 | For foot traffic , a distance of some 10–12 km ( 6–7 miles ) would probably have been a more-than-adequate day 's journey , especially if burdened with goods and needing to leave enough time for their disposal at the destination . |
| 17 | It would have been a perfect day at Hereford Regatta , but for an unwelcome visitor . |
| 18 | It must have been a long day for a boy of that age . |
| 19 | Frantic attempts to have my bags recalled came to nought and by half-past-one the Taiwan Timberland lookalikes hit deep slush at Torino after a salivating glimpse of Monte Bianco and blanketed environs a few feet to the left wingtip. 10 December must have been a great day for skiing . |
| 20 | It would have been a sad day for British satire had Jameson won this presumptious action . |
| 21 | I thought driving up today would have been a good day but the reality is that it is not going to start until Easter time . |
| 22 | " It could have been a lovely day , " he said slowly . |
| 23 | It could have been a big day for B.C. 's new president , Vancouver businessman Chuck Plester , but Graf was inches wide with another penalty in injury time . |
| 24 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 25 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 26 | A general strike brought Kosovo virtually to a standstill on Sept. 3 , and schools were also boycotted on what should have been the first day of a new school year . |
| 27 | It should have been the best day of my career but it turned into a nightmare . ’ |
| 28 | Erm it must have been the last day , it must have been Friday , must have been Friday . |
| 29 | He remained there for what must have been an anxious day and a night while the elephant returned to and from a nearby stream with trunkfuls of water with which it was finally able to loosen the roots of the tree , push it over , then trample its victim just as his belated rescue-party arrived on the scene . |
| 30 | Hari rubbed her hand over her eyes , it had been a strange day , an eventful one in which she had quite clearly made an enemy but perhaps she had also made a friend of Edward Morris . |