Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All moot court judges may and should give counsel a hot time by interjecting questions and objections to his argument . |
| 2 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 3 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 4 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
| 5 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 6 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 7 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 8 | We arrived in Venice with time to spare before catching the train to Bologna , where we would have to change a third time for Parma . |
| 9 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
| 10 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 11 | We had a beautiful Spring holiday on the Beauly Firth , and could not have chosen a better time to be there , with all the different kinds of foliage on the hillsides , and the spring flowers on the banks . |
| 12 | And having arrived in Zurich , or having returned there at the end of a tour round north Switzerland , visitors will probably want to spend a little time in a city about which they have heard so much . |
| 13 | Although the Laputans were kind to me , I did not want to spend a long time in their country . |