Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | If only I had a decent time management system , you know , I could be really effective , and all the rest of it . |
2 | ‘ Well , perhaps I had a bland time , ’ she retorted ineptly . |
3 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
4 | So er so you had a good time ? |
5 | So you had a good time ? |
6 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
7 | So it takes a long time think more egalitarian . |
8 | So , though I had a bad time , well I had a , I 've had a great life since ! |
9 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
10 | Oh well you had a good time . |
11 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
12 | Well you have a good time . |
13 | Well we had a wonderful time at Marks and Sparks . |
14 | Does n't it take a long time to change people 's attitude against authority . |
15 | You might get a real bad one and then you had a rough time but mostly they gave way and very often , if you got a drunk , another policeman saw you were having some difficulty . |
16 | times for auctioning though was er when shops went bankrupt , er especially chocolate shops , cos then we had a good time after he 'd done because we usually got loads of chocolate which was a luxury . . |
17 | Say from one till ten cos they 're the early ones and then they get a certain time , then your numbers eleven to twenty |
18 | The driver , as it turned out , was a retired admiral , and unfortunately he spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
19 | And and sometimes it takes a long time , does n't it . |
20 | Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone . |
21 | One of those days was last Friday , when I had a terrible time going to lunch with Herman to meet Ivy . |
22 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |
23 | It 's particularly easy in California where we have a great time advantage . |
24 | That 's why it took a long time for the light to get to you . ’ |
25 | The shower was wonderfully soothing and afterwards she spent a long time drying her hair and putting on her make-up . |