Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's like a holiday camp sometimes and we are all having a good time . |
| 2 | I get a lot of enjoyment from doing it , this is the biggest we 've been involved in and we 're all having a good time . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're just having a good time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If someone looks like they 're not having a good time , or they look like they 're acting , the tape is rejected . |
| 5 | ‘ If someone looks like they 're not having a good time , or they 're looking at their watch , or they look like they 're acting , then the tape is rejected . ’ |
| 6 | Erm , I was going to mention , as Rob has done the increase in new complaints , which I think is somewhat welcome erm , we 're still taking a long time from the averages over the last twelve months , I think that 's just reflecting being out some days over the ones you 've been talking about , er , we 're down on actual stage one equipments in the month erm , we 're not quite sure why that is , mm it 's just the way things have panned out . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry you 've missed seeing Prague — but you 're otherwise having a good time , are n't you ? ’ |
| 8 | For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before . |
| 9 | They are out to have a good time . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm just having a hard time indentifying you with a business legendary for its ‘ wise old men ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ The victims were just having a good time . ’ |
| 12 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
| 13 | Other people were also having a good time : the level of noise had edged up and up ; the charity organizers , women with greedy smiles , were counting piles of money ; and Clarissa was still leading Toby a chase . |
| 14 | Jim Bob , laughing , says that some of the crew are here , as much for him to talk to as for their tour responsibilities : ‘ Because if we were n't having a good time with our friends we could n't do this . ’ |
| 15 | She 's obviously having a wonderful time . |
| 16 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 17 | it 's just taking a long time . |
| 18 | Well actually it jus , he 's not having a bad time . |
| 19 | He probably thinks everyone is still having a good time out there somewhere in the fog . |
| 20 | Well it 's always takes a long time . |
| 21 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 22 | So Bill Gates is n't having a great time at the moment and things may get worse once the US Federal Trade Commission reveals its findings about Microsoft 's business practices . |
| 23 | Some of the other holiday-makers did n't speak much English … but that 's the beauty of HCI , everyone is there to have a good time and you find you make friends even if you do n't speak the same language . |
| 24 | St Catherine 's Dock was busy as a Hogarth etching and smelt as if something should have been quietly buried a long time ago . |
| 25 | Apart from this defeat in Africa , Hitler 's Germany was not having a happy time . |
| 26 | FISTS OF FIRE FRANK Bruno was yesterday promising a hot time for his next opponent Pierre Coetzer at a Press conference in London when a fire alarm went off and the building had to be evacuated . |
| 27 | The doctor was telling her that he was off to have a good time where Lydia lived , imagining that this would induce envy in her . |
| 28 | Poor Tim Wilson was probably having a bad time . |
| 29 | Some neighbours would even tell my daughters that I was n't at home because I was out having a good time with men . |
| 30 | Even though they may be working together on contributory problems in the marriage , he still needs to recognise how she hung on for both of them while he was out having a good time . |