Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | I spent a little precious time searching for a telephone , but could n't find one . |
2 | Bored and lonely , yes , but I had a reasonably pleasant time of things all the same . |
3 | I taught at a private primary school for girls and really , compared with what some teachers go through , I had a terribly easy time , but I still could n't cope . |
4 | I had a very happy time looking at things I did n't want |
5 | I had a really good time , went everywhere , went too the mountains . |
6 | I had a really great time . |
7 | Which took a very long time . |
8 | ‘ She had a really bad time . |
9 | Why not Legoland — Katie Wood did and she had a very constructive time . |
10 | She had a very jolly time in Korea and she does not like being photographed by the Press . |
11 | She told me you had a very difficult time . ’ |
12 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |
13 | We waited a very long time in growing unease . |
14 | We had a pretty good time I suppose , but to tell the truth I did n't feel like a party much . |
15 | We had a very good time , & good weather , for the rest of our stay , & I think Richard enjoyed showing us the many attractions of his area as much as we enjoyed seeing them . |
16 | In spite of very indifferent weather , we had a very happy time . |
17 | It was very handy , being so close to town , and as the Lock family are much of an age with our boys we had a very jolly time together . |
18 | ‘ I remember once he took a house in Mallorca and , away from London , we had a very enjoyable time . |
19 | We had a very bad time with Ken , the buyer at first . |
20 | A : It is true we had a perfectly wonderful time . |
21 | We had a really good time . |
22 | Our favourite was Brands Hatch , where we had a really good time . ’ |
23 | ‘ For a long time , ’ he says , ‘ the king acted on the advice of William of Montague , who always encouraged him to excellence , honour , and love of arms : and so they led their young lives in pleasant fashion , until there came a more serious time with more serious matters . ’ |
24 | Although viruses have such a simple structure , biologists do not conclude that they are necessarily ‘ primitive ’ ; that is , that they evolved a very long time ago as precursors of more complex organisms . |
25 | I think they had a jolly good time at the taxpayer 's expense , I but I wo n't be |
26 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
27 | They waited a very long time for his answer . |
28 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
29 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
30 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |