Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [v-ing] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am having a good time , ’ Ruth assured him . |
| 2 | I am fifteen I have just come down here in my lunch hour at school but I am having a good time . |
| 3 | And ‘ Oh , I am having a nice time ! ’ he exclaimed to her . |
| 4 | I am having a tough time . ’ |
| 5 | ( 7° ) I 'm writing to say I 'm having a marvellous time here The gestural usage must be glossed a little differently , as " the pragmatically given space , proximal to speaker 's location at CT , that includes the point or location gesturally indicated " . |
| 6 | I 'm having a good time walking up and down here and being astonished that anyone could be so ignorant . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm having a fantastic time . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm having a great time here . |
| 9 | Anyway I 'm having a great time . |
| 10 | My mum thinks I 'm having a great time , as I tell her that I am but it 's a lie , and it has n't got any better . |
| 11 | ‘ Do I look as if I 'm having a hard time ? |
| 12 | , my first years had two children , had no breast problems and I 'm having a horrendous time just now and I 'm on H R T , I 'm on my third different kind ! |
| 13 | if I find it too much , cos I start , I 'm starting a full time job again , I , I 'll ask to share it hopefully . |
| 14 | I was taking a long time ! |
| 15 | ‘ I was anticipating a bad time but my wife was thrilled because she loves Russia — that 's why my daughter is called Katya , ’ says Mr Faith . |
| 16 | Not that I complained because I was having a great time with it , but I noticed that there were a few changes and when I went back to England from Mustique , that was probably the last time MainMan existed . |
| 17 | Not the most exciting of prospects maybe but even so , I was having a good time . |
| 18 | A lot of things were happening , sometimes I was having a good time , sometimes it was ghastly , and I used to get totally paranoid smoking dope . |
| 19 | I was the best-known face in East Anglia , but I was having a terrible time . |
| 20 | She said I was having a lovely time looking all round these things ! |
| 21 | And she bought things with her erm twenty five pound voucher said I was having a lovely time and I forgot the time ! |
| 22 | I was wondering a long time . |
| 23 | In the longer term discount range , Melanee could choose the Halifax , which is offering a first time buyer offer of 1.5 per cent until the end of January 1993 . |
| 24 | Such a phenomenon may be explained in various ways , but one factor of acknowledged importance is certainly the rapidity of economic and social change , which tends to separate more sharply the experience , expectations and outlook of older and younger generations , as Mead ( 1970 ) argued in a study in which she likened the ‘ dissident young ’ to pioneers who are exploring a new time rather than a new country . |
| 25 | The story focusses on Mario and Pedro , two kids who are having a tough time scraping together enough money to live on . |
| 26 | The story focusses on Mario and Pedro , two kids who are having a tough time scraping together enough money to live on . |
| 27 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 28 | You 're having a great time . |
| 29 | ‘ Enduring ’ means nothing if you 're having a rotten time now , so you guys love Shakespeare and in the meantime I ca n't get a good hot cup of coffee in this country . |
| 30 | ‘ Not too far when you 're having a good time . |