Example sentences of "[verb] have a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we contrive to have a very pleasant time . |
| 2 | I can remember having a really happy time with other relatives after her funeral . |
| 3 | He went on : ‘ We 're going to have a jolly good time after waiting so long for this . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 5 | If it had been Rime Giants following us we would have had a more difficult time of it ; they enjoy such conditions . |
| 6 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 7 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 8 | Like Alciston and most other Sussex parishes it seems to have had a fairly prosperous time until the mid-fourteenth century ; the early over-large tax demands of the Norman overlords had been replaced by a much more balanced local appreciation of the revenue possibilities . |
| 9 | He did have a very hard time which we , as children , could not understand … they took care of Richard as you know but my mother also had to look after the children left in 2 Dan-y-bont , Pontrhydyfen , travelling there at least twice a week on two separate buses with Richard , a two-year-old , in tow . |
| 10 | Na er well of course I 'm seve seventy nine but I can still remember most of it and I did have a very bad time ! |
| 11 | By the time Corrie 's wedding took place Philippa was over the worst of her sadness and in a good position to enjoy it to the full — ; the closest to the centre of the ceremonies , yet fancy free ; and she had had a very good time — much affectionate sympathy from aunts and cousins , and husbands of aunts and cousins , and admiration and flirtation and kissing enough . |
| 12 | The gentlemen of the press had had a fairly lean time of it so far . |
| 13 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |
| 14 | Howard says : ‘ If it all stopped tomorrow , we can say we 've had a really good time , and that 's what matters . |
| 15 | I 've had a really horrendous time while you 've been away cavorting with your Jews … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We were one of four British teams competing in an event that attracted 19 teams in all and about 2,000 competitors , and we have had a really good time . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She 's had a pretty rotten time in some ways , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's had a very unhappy time . |
| 19 | Christopher 's had a really good time so have I so has Robert . |