Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd been gone several days before Trueman did it . |
| 3 | It was believed that the device might have been planted some days earlier . |
| 4 | It was understood that the car was one reported to have been stolen some days earlier from a car park in Colchester . |
| 5 | It was from Camilla Parker-Bowles and had been written several days before the engagement was officially announced . |
| 6 | The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah . |
| 7 | By its appearance it had been cooked several days ago . |
| 8 | On Aug. 19 Joint Political and Military Commission ( CCPM ) observers reported that the situation remained tense , and expressed dismay that recommendations to end the violence , which had been made some days earlier , had yet to be implemented . |
| 9 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 10 | Just three seals had been killed that day , when more than twenty were needed ; and only one cleanly , by a single spear-thrust from Okawi . |
| 11 | Israel Defence Force ( IDF ) radio reported on Aug. 8 that an officer of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) militia had been killed that day in the central sector of Israel 's self-declared " security zone " . |
| 12 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 13 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 14 | The flat was sweltering although curtains had been drawn all day to keep the sun out . |
| 15 | The six men and six women have been questioned all day by detectives : |