Example sentences of "had been [verb] the day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of his playing partners , Greg Norman was fined the same amount , but Ken Brown , who had been punished the day before , had to fork out £100 for a second offence . |
| 2 | This had been arranged the day before . |
| 3 | For 1992 , it had been renamed the Day of the Defenders of the [ unspecified ] Homeland . |
| 4 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 5 | The Council 's presidents this time would not hear of it , no doubt after the consternation which had been caused the day before , and it received a favourable vote . |
| 6 | It had been posted the day they left for Algeria . |
| 7 | Ruggiero Miletti had been killed the day before , on Monday morning , and yet the gang had waited until this morning to alert the family with a cruel message of hope ! |
| 8 | She did not have sufficient strength to take stance on the gaunt bare branch above her head nor had she touched the remnant of meat that had been left the day before as her food and which now lay on the ground at her side . |
| 9 | The prehistoric trees looked as if they had been felled the day before , but they were as sterile as hot bricks from a kiln and probably one hundred and thirty million years old . |
| 10 | The Johannesburg Sunday Times had meanwhile disclosed on Feb. 10 that one of the co-accused who had been missing the day the trial opened , Katiza Cebekhulu , had actually been seen , and duly photographed by the newspaper , among the crowd on the Supreme Court steps , apparently unconcerned by the heavy police presence . |
| 11 | The van had been stolen the day before , resprayed a nondescript grey overnight and fitted with false numberplates obtained from two separate sources . |
| 12 | Surprised bosses thought 46-year-old Terry had been spending the day wrapped up in bed . |
| 13 | She had noticed her being teased mercilessly all through the dinner hour , no doubt due to the fact that her brother Benjamin had been expelled the day before . |
| 14 | Since the block had been removed the day before , and Ewan 's program had started to run , she had felt like a cat on heat . |