Example sentences of "[vb past] been the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been the best day yet . |
| 2 | It had been the blackest day of the war when the government announced the rationing of tea . |
| 3 | Becoming editor had been the greatest day of his life , and now these people were telling him that his paper was apolitical and had a lack of analysis and editorialization . |
| 4 | She came up to me with , I noticed , slightly less bounce in her step than there had been the previous day . |
| 5 | He felt annoyed at first but then he realized that he was running far better than he had been the previous day and that he was n't even trying . |
| 6 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 7 | Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind , and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst day of all . |