Example sentences of "have a [noun] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press therefore has a field day , the Labour Party is diverted and distracted and all the politicians have joined a family squabble on an alleged matter of vital principle , but it is all to do with power within the Party , so we are entirely diverted from the questions we ought to face but can not face up to . |
| 2 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 3 | Looking at my arms I could see that the mosquitoes appeared to have had a field day . |
| 4 | Nobody is starry-eyed about a world condominium with Moscow , but nobody except some of the administration 's conservative critics ( who have had a field day trashing the Gorbachev plan for the Gulf ) thinks the Russians can be ignored . |
| 5 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
| 6 | The press would have had a field day , and what Frank did n't realize is that he himself would have been a laughing stock . |
| 7 | But that wretched Sandra would have had a field day too — her picture in the local rag in her best dress . |
| 8 | The body linguists would have had a field day . |
| 9 | The Opposition has had a field day with the charges of betrayal it could with so much justification fling at the Government over broken election promises . |
| 10 | They 'd never had a Christmas day quite like that before . |
| 11 | Have you had a Christmas day . |
| 12 | As a succession of paycops , stewardesses , diplomatics , immigration officials , armourcabbies , narcotics relay expeditors , hotel functionaries , arms dealers and hookers told him to ‘ have a snazz day ’ and shoved his credit card through their machines , he wondered whether they would like the real 21st century when Nguyen Seth rained it down on them . |
| 13 | Critics of this or that policy , but particularly some elements of the Press and local politicians , could all have a field day , but they do so on half-truths anyway . |
| 14 | Any bacteria that may be in the food will have a field day and grow . |
| 15 | Miss Angus would have a field day , happy to emphasize her own high moral principles at the expense of an unloved member of a younger generation . |
| 16 | Anglers , amateur or otherwise , should have a field day at Morgan 's next auction when no less than 30 choice rods , carrying names like Hardy and Alcock will come under the hammer . |
| 17 | ‘ Unemployment in the building industry would be cut , small builders would have a field day . |
| 18 | gon na be wicked , they 're gon na have a field day |
| 19 | But whoever it was that made that claim obviously did not have a school day on which he was expected to use MY brain to do one of Mr Kent 's maths tests ! |
| 20 | as if you would have a polish day every Friday you could put it on Thursday night . |
| 21 | Does the following sound an impossible target for the first five years of our society , that we might have a BCR day ( week ? ) on another railway , hiring one of its locomotives and some of its stock , but running good old BCR style mixed trains including at least one goods truck owned and restored by us and painted in BCR livery ? |
| 22 | I do n't think we should have a swimming day . |
| 23 | But you do you think honestly though that that really does still hold true because if everyone ha mostly having automatics now you just wash as you go you do n't have a washing day or is it specially Monday they |
| 24 | It was a nuisance having a working day split in two , but on the whole the job suited her quite well . |
| 25 | Critics of its lumbering style of management — notably the flamboyant and dissident board member H. Ross Perot — were having a field day . |
| 26 | The bookmakers are having a field day , so it seems , on the ‘ Canterbury Stakes ’ . |
| 27 | Conservatives and liberals are both having a field day , taking liberties on the assumption that the government is too concerned with avoiding trouble to suppress them . |
| 28 | Land birds and reptiles , like giant tortoises and land iguanas , are having a field day . |
| 29 | Sinatra was having a field day , standing up in his car and bellowing ‘ Mayday ! |
| 30 | ‘ Journalists have always been keen on the idea of a ‘ Punk Revival ’ and now that a few bands like the Buzzcocks , Sham 69 and X-Ray Spex are back together they 're having a field day . |