Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had enjoyed a happy day and it seemed to Carrie that Seb had noticed her , really noticed her , as a young woman for the very first time . |
| 2 | As the sun went down over the trees , everyone in the squadron had enjoyed a hard day 's military training and , after a good dinner and some well-deserved beers , they were very happy and were looking forward to the challenges of the next day . |
| 3 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
| 4 | We had had a superb day 's climbing , and to say his death was tragic is an understatement . |
| 5 | The glass must have held nearly half a pint and I thought I too had had a splendid day out . |
| 6 | It was St Patrick 's Night , 1912 , and Sergeant O'Neil had had a long day , what with the parade and all . |
| 7 | Miss Lodsworth had had a long day . |
| 8 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
| 9 | She had had a gruelling day on top of a gruelling six months . |
| 10 | ‘ His engineer would not take over as he had had a full day 's terror , so I volunteered to take over engine control in his place . |
| 11 | Her ankle had had a full day 's rest , and it should n't take long for her to be on her feet again . |
| 12 | Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars . |
| 13 | Gwendolen had had a distressing day and was making up for it with several glasses of this delightfully spicy lemonade . |
| 14 | During dinner Sir Henry told us that he had spent a dull day and evening on his own . |
| 15 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 16 | The evening had turned fine in the past hour or so , although there were still dark clouds massed in the west , over where Ireland lay , but Karen had spent a useful day revising , and felt virtuous . |
| 17 | A few of the men had taken a rare day off from the quarries and the recognitions were more generous than Harrison had anticipated . |
| 18 | It had taken a full day for Merymose to obtain permission for Huy to visit the embalmer . |
| 19 | By day 22 he was getting up at the ‘ correct ’ time ( that is , his morning and real morning coincided ) , but had lost a whole day . |
| 20 | By limiting itself to cautious probing on the 21st ( all except for the disobedient von Zwehl who had registered the day 's only success ) , it had lost a valuable day . |
| 21 | He sank into an even deeper sleep that night with the knowledge that he , Willie Beech , had survived a whole day with four other people of his own age and he had made jam . |