Example sentences of "[pron] 've [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | An overwhelmed Fogarty said : ‘ I 've waited a long time for this . |
| 2 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 3 | I 've waited a long time to be able to do this . ’ |
| 4 | I 've waited a long time for this . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've had a great time , ’ Ashley said , thanking Vitor when he brought the car to a halt . |
| 7 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry sir , I 've had a tough time with this . |
| 9 | When the sightseeing tour was over , Little Billy sat down again on a large branch and said to the whole company of Minpins , ‘ Look , I 've had a lovely time with you all , but how am I ever going to get home again ? |
| 10 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 11 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've spent the whole time trying to convince myself it could never work between us , ’ he went on , as though she had n't spoken . |
| 13 | no , but we now know that , if it , if I 've got the right time , half past twelve 's fine |
| 14 | Well I mean I 'm , I 've got an easy time at the moment because I 'm on today . |
| 15 | ‘ I must say you 've 'ad an 'ard time , not 'aving no job or anything , but you 're in good 'ands , love . |
| 16 | Yeah , so you 've had a good time then ? |
| 17 | ‘ No , you 've had a bad time , and now you 're snapping out of it , that 's all . |
| 18 | ‘ My son , you 've had a bad time , I can see it in your face . |
| 19 | I feel recently you 've had a glum time . |
| 20 | Oh , yes , you 've had a lovely time . |
| 21 | " You 've had a hard time , Miss Chilcott . " |
| 22 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 23 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 24 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 25 | But anyway we 've got a tight we 've got a tight time scale . |
| 26 | We 've got a tight time scale so we 've got to do this reasonably . |
| 27 | Yeah we 've had a brilliant time . |
| 28 | I mean I 'll be upset about our Whisky , 'cos we 're , I mean , we 've had a long time , although she 's not a pet pet , you know what I mean . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've had a marvellous time , ’ they beam , ‘ really marvellous . ’ |
| 30 | I do , I hope but we appreciated Claire and Steven had her more than we had , but you know , we 've had the odd times we 've virtually been across there a month or something like , but but when you have a position where you have five |