Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.

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31 It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off .
32 Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago .
33 But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time .
34 The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake .
35 Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class .
36 Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling .
37 When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before .
38 When he had tried a third time , the headmaster had made some slightly menacing remarks about brotherhood and commitment .
39 It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction .
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