Example sentences of "had a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | They never went in for small talk ( ‘ Had a nice day at the office , darling ? ’ complete with obligatory peck . |
| 2 | Miranda appeared in the doorway of No. 9 and said , ‘ Are you coming in now , darling ? ’ like other wives would say , ‘ Had a nice day at the office , dear ? ’ |
| 3 | We had a nice day on Monday . |
| 4 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 5 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |
| 6 | We arrived back at about seven pm , had our evening meal and then got an early night because we had a long day ahead of us . |
| 7 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 8 | Knowing that she had a long day in front of her , Laura decided to follow her friend 's good example . |
| 9 | Barbara says although she had a fantastic day , she will probably stick to making her own clothes in future : ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring modelling — and shopping — really are . |
| 10 | The delegates had a stimulating day , with a wide variety of speakers , none of whom was afraid to be controversial . |
| 11 | The Alton College mixed hockey team had a successful day at the Totton College mixed sevens tournament in Southampton last week . |
| 12 | Christmas Day in Bart 's Kenton ward was a children 's delight as staff pulled out all the stops to ensure patients had a magical day . |
| 13 | I had a grand day at sea , but although the tide helped me to get back the wind did n't , and I used the engine to get back into the Crouch . |
| 14 | That ground is a grubber kick away from Hong Kong Football Club where the Scottish Survivors had a grand day in the ten-a-side event winning all their three matches against Bucks RFC ( Singapore ) , 45-0 ; Hong Kong Forces , 34-0 ; and Wombats ( Australia ) , 43-0 . |
| 15 | Pipe Major Tom Buchanan and the Boys and Girls of Monkstown Mossley School Band had a glorious day when they took second prize and Best Corps of Drums in the Novice Juvenile Band section . |
| 16 | ‘ Had a good day ? |
| 17 | Underwood then had a good day , making 31 and with Old taking the score to 250 , then taking 5 for 39 as West Indies were all out for 182 . |
| 18 | Out west on Garbh Bheinn , Ardgour , Rab had a good day with his wife Chris , climbing the crack in the headwall left of Kelpie ( one of Murray Hamilton 's two unreported E6 's in Scotland ) , gained by traversing along the half height ledge from the left . |
| 19 | Did the wives say , ‘ Had a good day , dear ? ’ and did the husbands reply , ‘ Not bad except that poor Fred could n't get it up at all . |
| 20 | Third XI League batsmen had a good day , with Mark Severn 's unbeaten 111 in Brentwood 's defeat of Ilford , Cyril Hickson 's 102 not out for Woodford Wells to beat Southend , and Jerry Trayler 's 122 not out in Gidea Park & Romford 's draw with Chingford . |
| 21 | All that mattered was that we had reached the summit , and more importantly had a good day out . |
| 22 | Nursery provisions were given priority and , by the end of 1980 , all the main markets of San Salvador had a good day nursery subsidized by the local government . |
| 23 | If you had a good day you 'd probably come home for your tea , you see ? |
| 24 | ‘ Had a good day ? ’ asked Iris as she settled into the Golf to be driven back to the auberge at the end of the afternoon . |
| 25 | " Had a good day , love ? " asked her mother . |
| 26 | ‘ Had a good day ? ’ she called as Melissa closed the garage door after putting the car away . |
| 27 | ‘ Had a good day sweetie ? |
| 28 | Holland had a good day all round taking 3–41 as Hartford struggled to 125–8 . |
| 29 | Utilities had a good day , with electricity generators to the fore , but aerospace was the worst-performing sector of the day , led down by Smiths Industries on Eurofighter worries . |
| 30 | The pound had a good day , and gained 1.5 pfennigs to Dm2.4138 and almost half a cent to $1.4491 , encouraged both by the prospect of no further cuts in interest rates and the evidence of a modest UK economic recovery contained in the retail sales figures . |