Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 32 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 33 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 34 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 37 | He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary . |
| 38 | They stood talking a long time at the crossroads before separating but he did n't offer to see her over the weekend . |
| 39 | He 'd realized a long time ago that he 'd married a woman who cuddled complete strangers in the street and probably had a season ticket for West Ham in her handbag . |
| 40 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 41 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 42 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 43 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 44 | It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster 's . |
| 45 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
| 46 | 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 ) . |
| 47 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 48 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
| 49 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 50 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 51 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 52 | And if Jesus was around today he would be going to the places that you and I would think twice about going to , not because he wanted to have a good time , but because he wanted to relate to the people who were there . |