Example sentences of "day [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind that day had been increasing with the approach of bad weather and the instructor , who had decided that it was time to stop , was towing the glider to the hangar . |
| 2 | The previous day had been one of frantic activity . |
| 3 | A Northwest spokesman in St Paul , Mr Douglas Miller , said that the latest threat was unusual as a specific flight and day had been mentioned by the caller , who warned of reprisals for the jailing of two Palestinians for a series of bombings . |
| 4 | I had thought that the ghastly images of that awful day had been burned forever in the minds of anyone who saw them . |
| 5 | But the Banking , Insurance and Finance Union claimed yesterday that polling day had been selected to announce details of the first cuts to minimise public attention . |
| 6 | Hut 6 dealt with the recording of intercepts of German army and air force Enigma , and the decoding of them after the key of the day had been determined from the brilliant deductions of the code-breakers . |
| 7 | The heat of the day had been replaced by searing cold and the bus was nearly empty . |
| 8 | Virginia had n't brought a mack , because the day had been hot and sunny . |
| 9 | By the time the coach arrived back at Oxford the day had been made remarkable and worthy of being talked about . |
| 10 | If the day had been wet , the kitchen range would be surrounded by a huge clothes horse hung with wet washing , and the room would smell of steam and drying clothes . |
| 11 | Several of the Covenanters , including some of the officers , told Morton that the order of the day had been ‘ No quarter — No prisoners ’ and threatened to kill the prisoner but the powerful blacksmith declared that having spared the man 's life he would defend it with his own . |
| 12 | The flies which on the previous day had been a nuisance to them were now a torment . |
| 13 | The day had been a hummer : a huge leap nearer London . |
| 14 | The day had been very long and packed to bursting . |
| 15 | The village contained little more than cottages , but the spirit of the day had been caught … and two or three of the best of them were smartened up with a white curtain and ‘ lodgings to let ’ — and further on in the little green court of an old farm house , two females in elegant white were actually to be seen with their books and camp-stools — and in turning the corner of the baker 's shop , the sound of a harp might be heard through the upper casement . |
| 16 | His white shirt from the previous day had been discarded on the floor . |
| 17 | The day had been too good to smudge with complaints . |
| 18 | The last day had been set aside for a hunting trip , a full day out in the field , putting into practice , hopefully , all we had learned . |
| 19 | Two years earlier , Britain 's warmest November day had been recorded in Clwyd at 21.7°C/71°F . |
| 20 | After the wine for the day had been chosen by the master of the house , the butler was responsible for its presentation at table . |
| 21 | Abrams did his best to be Mr Clean and avoid direct confrontation with his guttersnipe opponent but to no avail , and just weeks before polling day had been harried into calling D'Amato , a ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 22 | The day had been hot ; in fact , the previous week had been very hot and so the roads and streets were paved with ridged flags of mud , hardbaked , but not so hard as to prevent their surfaces being skimmed off into dust which , in some streets of the town , seemed to be floating waist high like a mist rising from water . |
| 23 | Myeloski sat on a chair and heaved a big sigh , a theatrical moment signifying that the day had been hard . |
| 24 | Instead his day had been spent indulging the Colonel 's passion for cricket . |
| 25 | Our second day had been ‘ earmarked ’ fora boat trip out to Volunteer Point to see the king penguins , and as it is an open beach , landing is always subject to wind and sea conditions . |
| 26 | While such world-famous names as BSA and Triumph were modestly adjusting and ‘ tarting up ’ models which in their day had been in front , the Japanese and particularly Honda looked at the situation through new eyes . |
| 27 | He never in fact produced the list ( which in a speech the next day had been mysteriously reduced to 57 ) but his smear tactics worked in an atmosphere of fear . |
| 28 | She had bunked off work all this week , Joanie had rung in and said she had ‘ flu ’ , and every day had been spent like this . |
| 29 | It was early evening and the day had been too long . |
| 30 | The day had been rich with surprises . |