Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 2 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 3 | Ash End House Farm was such a success for parents and children that I have organised another day out for the Christmas Holidays . |
| 4 | So you have come this day from your little villages , your market towns , your cities , from mines and factories , or leaving the plough , to this city . |
| 5 | The region today is a sparsely populated land of ruined homesteads , small towns that have seen better days , farmers who are too reliant on unreplenishable groundwater , and missile silos . |
| 6 | Inside there 's no carpet , just old lino , a few vinyl-covered stacking chairs , and two tables that have seen better days . |
| 7 | Cabinet Ministers struggle into dinner jackets that have seen better days ( so , too , do their detectives ) , their wives sit long before dressing tables applying powder and paint . |
| 8 | We are working at Nanking University , in rather cramped and primitive conditions , for the buildings have seen better days . |
| 9 | I am not mad , most noble Festus , but in sober sadness I have suffered this day more bodily pain than I had before a conception of . |
| 10 | As I write this we have had four days of still sea fog . |
| 11 | Because some months have got thirty one days in other months have got thirty days in and one month has only got twenty eight days in and twenty nine in a leap year . |
| 12 | And as I become … and as I remain … more relaxed … and less tense each day … so I will develop much more confidence in myself … more confidence in my ability to do … not only what I have to do each day … more confidence in my ability to do whatever I ought to be able to do … without fear of failure … without fear of consequences … without unnecessary anxiety … without uneasiness . |
| 13 | The refugees have spent six days on the Austrian border holding out for British permits . |
| 14 | They have been informed that they do not qualify for their bounty because they have spent insufficient days at summer camp , despite serving 51 days in the Gulf . |
| 15 | I have spent all day there . |
| 16 | Detectives have spent all day questioning him about Tania Probyn 's disappearance and subsequent death . |
| 17 | We have spent three days debating the council tax . |
| 18 | Workers at the Heeley Urban Farm in Sheffield have spent several days collecting seeds from these flowers with the intention of growing them as a crop , eventually to sell the seed as an urban flower-mix . |
| 19 | At the end of a day 's sailing it is worth thinking about what you have learned that day , and trying to work out why the new technique works better than the one it has replaced . |
| 20 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 21 | I have to take each day as it comes . |
| 22 | They have lain all day |