Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener . |
| 2 | Strawberry had had a bad time . |
| 3 | You know , you 'd think things had changed a long time ago but erm I remember having Chrissy in that yard when he was a baby in his pushchair where and there was the coalman 's horse and erm |
| 4 | Nicola had phoned a dozen times , without luck . |
| 5 | Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage . |
| 6 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 7 | Darlington had waited a long time for a shopping centre , she said , but the wait had its advantages . |
| 8 | He had quite liked the thought of being fit and athletic some time in the future , although the signs had taken a long time coming . |
| 9 | Sartori had disappeared a short time later . |
| 10 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
| 11 | In Jan. 1829 the company had asked a second time if Lady le Fleming might not offer some assistance in view of the great expense of development work . |
| 12 | Our visit had taken a long time and we returned to Skeldale House for lunch . |
| 13 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |