Example sentences of "good day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progressively reducing the twenty Mk 1 sets by half , and acquiring from regular service stock a fleet of Mk 1 first open coaches , Ward put in hand a programme of vehicle refurbishment involving re-upholstering , recarpeting and curtain replacement and the fitting of individual table lamps , with the aim of restoring a level of respectability to coaches which had seen better days . |
| 2 | This seldom adds up to a coherent investment plan , but may be more simply described as a way of keeping things going until better days arrive . |
| 3 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 4 | Next month he faces another man who has seen better days , Michael Olajade , a Nigerian born in Britain . |
| 5 | Next month he faces another man who has seen better days , Michael Olajade , a Nigerian born in Britain . |
| 6 | Let it roll on full good , inexorable , irresistible , benignant , to the broader lands and better days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days . |
| 9 | Within the shortest space of time , they were walking into the lounge of an hotel that had seen better days but was still surprisingly well patronised ; by a variety of habitués , mostly male , and all , whether uniformed or civilian , contriving to give the place an air of distinction . |
| 10 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic , but his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses that had obviously known better days . |
| 11 | But his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses which obviously had known better days . |
| 12 | The other was used as a store room , a pathetic fate , since the tall window and high ceiling spoke of better days . |
| 13 | On one of Lucky Town ‘ s best songs , Better Days , he has the wit to sing : ‘ It 's a sad funny ending to find yourself pretending / a rich man in a poor man 's shirt . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Seaside towns have lost their air of gentility , ’ he said over a pint of Courage in the Royal , another gloomy relic of better days . |
| 15 | In better days , however , it merely served to guarantee the privacy of the sovereigns and as a diversion for the Prince Imperial who enjoyed running up and down it when he came to play with his parents . |
| 16 | But it was an age which saw the slow , sure , and steady progress of social improvement and it was an age of hope , of optimistic belief in the future , unashamed aspiration for better days and better conditions in the world . |
| 17 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 18 | He was a cheery chap who wore a frock coat and a soiled black felt hat which had seen better days . |
| 19 | FRANK HAFFEY DREAMS OF BETTER DAYS |
| 20 | On the corner of the opposite side was a house which had seen far better days but thankfully has now been restored . |
| 21 | Her first bit of advice , especially to older women , is to go through the wardrobe , ruthlessly discarding anything that no longer fits , no longer looks good on us , or has long since seen better days . |
| 22 | Hers was the ground floor flat of a tall old house which had seen better days and the communal front door was reached by means of three stone steps . |
| 23 | Deep carpet covered the floors and the stairs swept up to the showrooms and the warren of workrooms beyond , and though the window drapes and furnishings were ever-so-slightly faded , as if they had seen better days , they were of the finest silks and velvets and every corner was swept , polished and cleaned daily so that no single speck of dust , let alone a cobweb , dared show itself . |
| 24 | Hannah smiled , pulled out a stool ( which had seen better days ) and began to play . |
| 25 | So I can 'ave my picture in Vanity Fair wearing purple an' yellow tights , an' I do n't look anyfink at all like a sad old queen who 's seen much better days . |
| 26 | That will at least tide you over until better days , when they come . ’ |
| 27 | Better days ! |
| 28 | John Sessions was far from his best on the show ( and that 's saying something ) , while Julian Clary has seen many better days . |
| 29 | ‘ This is one of the better days in the history of the motor dealing industry . |
| 30 | But they were hot on the trail of a loathsome whine as the party in another mess pined for better days . |