Example sentences of "have [be] a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had been a long day . |
| 32 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
| 33 | It had been a long day for our guests , as they had left La Loupe at 1Opm on the Friday evening , so it was home to bed for a good night 's sleep , ready for a full day exploring on the Sunday . |
| 34 | It had been a long day — the children safely delivered to Grandma , the freezer full of food ( for a husband to cope on his own ) , leotards and tights packed along with all the other paraphernalia needed for a Medau display . |
| 35 | It had been a melancholic day , although Winston Churchill had at last been called into the War Cabinet , gracing its inaugural meeting as First Lord of the Admiralty . |
| 36 | It had been a pleasant day out for both four-man teams , basking in the sun , playing cards , talking about women and in the afternoon watching ‘ Grandstand ’ on their television set . |
| 37 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |
| 38 | It had been a tiring day , largely because it had been so unproductive . |
| 39 | It had been a nine days ' wonder , during which no charges had been brought , but Travis had told her to her face that he knew she had taken it . |
| 40 | It had been a heady day when she noticed the photograph no longer in a place of honour , on the chest of drawers , but moved to a shelf where it could hardly be seen , and then face down , and then in the bottom of a drawer . |
| 41 | It had been a normal day . |
| 42 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
| 43 | Mr Devlin said afterwards it had been a great day in Yarm 's history . |
| 44 | It had been a gloomy day which suddenly burst into splendour in the evening , the clouds rising behind the fields in the setting sun like mountains ( if only they had been ! ) and above , a darkening amethyst sky with — the finishing touch — a rose pink filigree disc of a moon foreshadowing the peace and perfection of a moonlit night . |
| 45 | It had been a humiliating day for Flora and she bore the Bishop a grudge in consequence . |
| 46 | But it had been a good day . |
| 47 | Today had been a good day . |
| 48 | Friday had been a busy day . |
| 49 | It had been a hard day . |
| 50 | It had been a hard day and the river could be a severe taskmaster at times . |
| 51 | It had been a hard day . |
| 52 | It had been a white day , white blank sky , white thin sun , warmish and dull . |
| 53 | Yes , Nicandra thought , it had been a difficult day , what with everything . |
| 54 | ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round . |
| 55 | It had been a dreadful day for the Stevens family when Jennifer 's diagnosis had been confirmed , a day that Rachel would never forget . |
| 56 | It had been a lovely day and Nick sang all the way home because of it , one of his tuneless , made-up nonsense songs . |
| 57 | It had been a nail-biting day glued to the television . |
| 58 | It had been a beastly day and Caroline had been so silly at supper . |
| 59 | It 's been a rotten day , you see . ’ |
| 60 | It 's been a sad day for many of the base personnel . |