Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 2 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 3 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 4 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 5 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 6 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 7 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 8 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 9 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 10 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 11 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 12 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 13 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 14 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 15 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 16 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 17 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 23 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 24 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 25 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 26 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 27 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |
| 28 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 29 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 30 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |