Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ My son , you 've had a bad time , I can see it in your face . |
| 32 | I feel recently you 've had a glum time . |
| 33 | Oh , yes , you 've had a lovely time . |
| 34 | " You 've had a hard time , Miss Chilcott . " |
| 35 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 36 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 37 | ‘ Well , not exactly , I mean , I did n't think that carefully … but you have had a rough time , you must admit . ’ |
| 38 | We hope you have had a pleasant time wherever you have been . |
| 39 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 40 | Exactly you have to think a long time . |
| 41 | ‘ You have chosen a good time . |
| 42 | We seem to have a good time whenever we 're out and always have something to talk about , which is really great . |
| 43 | However , independently of machines , we do have a natural time sense . |
| 44 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 45 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 46 | But anyway we 've got a tight we 've got a tight time scale . |
| 47 | We 've got a tight time scale so we 've got to do this reasonably . |
| 48 | Yeah we 've had a brilliant time . |
| 49 | I mean I 'll be upset about our Whisky , 'cos we 're , I mean , we 've had a long time , although she 's not a pet pet , you know what I mean . |
| 50 | ‘ We 've had a marvellous time , ’ they beam , ‘ really marvellous . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |
| 52 | So if , as seems likely , we have to wait a long time for a follow up to the triumphant Glyndebourne production , we should be all the more grateful for occasions like the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's concert performance ( sponsored by English Estates ) . |
| 53 | If any are received erm by the cutoff date , then it has to be my my submission that we have to have a reasonable time to respond . |
| 54 | Er we have to have a reasonable time to respond . |
| 55 | Ceauşescu admitted at the beginning of the 1980s that it was easier to change the economy and society than people themselves : ‘ As you can see , we have had an easy time constructing factories . |
| 56 | They 're , and they 're very good and they , they tend to stay a long time . |
| 57 | ‘ They 've waited a long time . |
| 58 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
| 59 | She says they 've had a good time . |
| 60 | Oh yeah yeah they 've had a good time I think down there |