Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 2 | She has had a bad time . |
| 3 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 4 | Erm but she 's had a nice time . |
| 5 | She 's had a terrible time |
| 6 | She 's grown , she 's changed , she 's had a brilliant time , but her best is yet to come . |
| 7 | White face , dark circles and short temper — she 's had a brilliant time ! |
| 8 | She 's had a bad time and no mistake . ’ |
| 9 | She 's had a bad time , so the buzz has it . |
| 10 | ‘ I had no idea that Mary was on that tack ; she 's a nice girl and she 's had a hard time what with that husband of has and now her father almost bedridden with arthritis . ’ |
| 11 | She 's a fine girl , Seb , and she 's had a hard time . |
| 12 | She 's had a distressing time . |
| 13 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
| 14 | It has exploited a slack time — the hiatus between the end of tunnelling work on the Channel link and the start of London 's Jubilee Line Underground extension — to demand that contractors work to tighter margins : between 3 and 7 per cent , compared with the 15 per cent allowed by North West Water , for example , on its contracts . |
| 15 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 16 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 17 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 19 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
| 20 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
| 21 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 22 | A man gets tired of his business and his family , and he wants to have a good time . |
| 23 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 24 | It does take a little time to right a market that has got so badly out of step . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 28 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |
| 29 | If he fails to attend a second time the judge has power to commit him to prison for contempt of court . |
| 30 | I know he 's had a long time out with injury but he must be all right now or he would n't be playing . ’ |