Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] have a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 2 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 3 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 4 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 5 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 6 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 7 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 8 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 9 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 10 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 11 | ‘ She said she had had a wonderful time and liked the people of Merseyside , so I hope this unfortunate incident does n't remain in her mind . ’ |
| 12 | My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go . |
| 13 | We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire . |
| 14 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 15 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 16 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 17 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 18 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 19 | And if Jesus was around today he would be going to the places that you and I would think twice about going to , not because he wanted to have a good time , but because he wanted to relate to the people who were there . |