Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I stopped mourning a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 3 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Despite the failings of the course I did have an excellent time and was not put off continuing with chemistry . |
| 6 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 7 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 8 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 9 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 10 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 11 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 12 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 13 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 14 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
| 15 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 16 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 17 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 18 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 19 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 20 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 21 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 22 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 23 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 24 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 25 | ‘ She said she had had a wonderful time and liked the people of Merseyside , so I hope this unfortunate incident does n't remain in her mind . ’ |
| 26 | Her bosses , unlike some , loved achievers , and encouraged her to write and broadcast , until with the publication of her biography The Improbable Puritan she left to become a full time writer . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire . |
| 30 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |