Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 2 | Despite the failings of the course I did have an excellent time and was not put off continuing with chemistry . |
| 3 | The basic shape is very easy to make , but if you do have a little time you might want to give the dragon more elaborate scales . |
| 4 | You do take a long time to come out has not reached the non strikers and er , some said he had a little reading from who . |
| 5 | My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go . |
| 6 | We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire . |
| 7 | However , independently of machines , we do have a natural time sense . |
| 8 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
| 9 | It does take a little time to right a market that has got so badly out of step . ’ |
| 10 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |