Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sold the jewels I was wearing and de Michelet and I had a splendid time until the money was gone . |
| 2 | Gail said : ‘ I would love to do it again — I had a good time and met lots of interesting people including great athletes such as Britain 's Colin Jackson . |
| 3 | I had a WONDERFUL time and can only say that Malcolm and I are looking forward very much to many happy journeys in her at home and abroad in the future . |
| 4 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 5 | Sage , rosemary and lavender need no visual description , though it is not always realized that sage has spikes of vividly blue-mauve flowers which last a long time and are highly magnetic to bees . |
| 6 | and read and erm and anyway erm and er and I said did you have a good time cos Andy cos they all went to Giles 's eighteenth you know Giles |
| 7 | THE majority community is sick and tired of hearing how a nationalist area was saturated with the security forces who departed a short time before loyalist paramilitaries entered to commit murder . |
| 8 | ‘ A pretty , happy girl , who likes a good time and a good laugh . ’ |
| 9 | You might get a real bad one and then you had a rough time but mostly they gave way and very often , if you got a drunk , another policeman saw you were having some difficulty . |
| 10 | I know you had a terrible time and the last thing I meant to do was to upset you . |
| 11 | We had a brilliant time and it 's a pity you only get to do it once : Maybe we 'll split up and reform under a different name — so we can have a crack at it next year . |
| 12 | times for auctioning though was er when shops went bankrupt , er especially chocolate shops , cos then we had a good time after he 'd done because we usually got loads of chocolate which was a luxury . . |
| 13 | But we had a good time and will definitely go again . |
| 14 | Of course , we had a good time and there was plenty to drink but nobody got silly as far as I can remember . ’ |
| 15 | But they 've got more of a concentration on the restaurant , whereas we have n't , we have a busy time and without a busy |
| 16 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 17 | They waited a long time while the hounds drew the covert . |
| 18 | They waited a long time and nobody appeared but the Brigadier did n't call again . |
| 19 | It seemed a long time before the railway lines began to shake , and they heard the train coming . |
| 20 | It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles . |
| 21 | It seemed a long time before footsteps came along the hall , the door was pushed wider and Guy appeared with an armful of logs . |
| 22 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 23 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |
| 24 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 25 | It seemed a long time since the small breakfast that was served in Spain , and in the end Felipe put a portion of each on her plate . |
| 26 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 27 | It rang a long time before a woman 's voice answered — the same woman . |
| 28 | It seems a long time since a general book on this theme appeared in English , and John Whitehead 's provides an all-round introduction . |
| 29 | ‘ It seems a long time since we had a chance to talk alone . ’ |
| 30 | It seems a long time since we ate together in this kitchen . |