Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the men died at the scene and their three colleagues were rushed to hospital , where one died a short time later . |
| 2 | I will always maintain that I had a good time in service , and from what I heard there were n't many bad places in the Teesdale area — just the odd one here and there . |
| 3 | The prize for the winner , was to share her next dinner , and ensure that she had a good time . |
| 4 | The Princess , dressed simply in a white blouse and dark skirt , was draped with crimson flower garlands as she flew over Mount Everest in a helicopter , 40 years after a British-sponsored expedition became the first to reach the summit of the world 's highest mountain.As she flew past the snowy peak a relative of a Nepalese climber who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Everest in 1953 was leading a seven-member Australian team up the mountain.Although the Princess did not see any climbers she told fellow passengers aboard her Super Puma helicopter that she had a wonderful time seeing the mountain through clear skies . |
| 5 | I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different , |
| 6 | But er according to my mother 's great joy , she got seasick even on the landing stage in in Liverpool and never came out of her cabin , so she had a big time as a young women running around the ship . |
| 7 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 8 | Oh you you somebody said that they had a bad time with erm |
| 9 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |
| 10 | Grayling found that he had a hard time getting people to take him seriously . |
| 11 | I sold the jewels I was wearing and de Michelet and I had a splendid time until the money was gone . |
| 12 | I 've got to say that I did enjoy this outing ; although the day began with a freezing start it warmed up later and I had a pleasant time working amongst the iron and other junk that abounds on the riverside . |
| 13 | TIMOTHY and I had a wonderful time in Lourdes and I feel so much comfort from it . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 16 | Erm in the nineteen fifties and right up until I became a full time official , erm there was generated an opinion that if companies were financially well off , due to the effort of the employees , then there was some formal entitlement for employees in these particular undertakings , to put forward a separate claim at domestic level , to , to enhance their pay . |
| 17 | The priests of the old deities had emerged from the desert or from hiding in neglected provincial cities in Shemau and To-mehu , and established themselves again , without difficulty , the people grateful to have the old gods returned to them , who demanded no more than unquestioning duty , propitiation and sacrifice ; gods who did not require a man to think for himself ; gods who forgave sin if the price was right , and who guaranteed a good time in the Hereafter . |
| 18 | Er but then she worked went to work in a munitions factory in Kilburn and she had a marvellous time . |
| 19 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 20 | Ask you if you had a nice time ? ’ |
| 21 | It was so neat and we had a good time . |
| 22 | ‘ He is a good golfer and we had a good time . ’ |
| 23 | I was happy at school , with lots of friends , and we had a good time . |
| 24 | ‘ We both spent most of our time working on the film , walking or sitting about in our dressing gowns and we had a great time together . ’ |
| 25 | He is a great walker now — distance no object — and we had a fine time looking at all the things the canal had to offer , including frozen puddles and flying swans . |
| 26 | One particularly memorable weekend in July , Shanti 's first mother and her husband and two sons all came to stay , and we had a happy time with all our family here , except for our son in San Francisco and his wife and family . |
| 27 | She took me to meet the Fellowship she helps to lead and we had a lovely time of worship together . |
| 28 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 29 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 30 | And then he gave orders to Punch for tea to be prepared and they had a terrible time finding any china that was n't cracked or broken and then she went on working in the pantry as quiet as a mouse and she could hear you both talking as clear as clear . |