Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time . |
| 32 | ‘ You 're having a marvellous time out there . |
| 33 | you 're having a bad time , use them . |
| 34 | It 's a funny thing though , because mother 's and daughter 's , and er , I love , when my mum comes up she 's a dreadful sleeper and if you 're having a bad time , you get up in the middle of the night to go and make a cup of tea , there 's always a little voice says , yes , let's have a cup of tea dear . |
| 35 | Your birthday tea ready but you were having a better time somewhere else ! |
| 36 | That is left for members of the host community to do , as it busies itself ghettoizing the minority ; and as it ghettoizes it mumbles , and if you listen carefully you can just discern beneath the self-righteousness , the self-congratulation , the following : ‘ Okay , okay , so you were having a hard time in your own country . |
| 37 | ‘ She 's having a good time , ’ Nevil laughed . |
| 38 | ‘ She 's taken a long time to throw off the illness and is still not fully fit , ’ said Sheppard 's Milngavie and Bearsden coach , Alex McNeil . |
| 39 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 40 | So now she was having a splendid time visiting friends , and who could blame her ? |
| 41 | She was having a great time . |
| 42 | ‘ I was glad that at last she was having a good time , that she was happy , ’ she said in an interview with Vox magazine . |
| 43 | Davies , Strudwick and Johnson persuaded Nicholas to hand in her resignation because they could see that she was having an impossible time of it . |
| 44 | Nobody is pretending that we are having a great time , but it is important to recognise the factors which have affected us in what is a transitional period for the club . |
| 45 | This contrived notion of a rock'n'roll band touring around — we 're doing all that shit and we 're having a great time too . |
| 46 | We 're having a good time . |
| 47 | I mean , , but I 'd really , seriously wished I had said to the waiter , but obviously we 're having a good time . |
| 48 | ‘ On the way home , we were approached a second time , by an Me 109 . |
| 49 | We were having a great time and feeling very relaxed . |
| 50 | He said he hoped we were having a nice time and could we leave the keys with Mrs Stewart please . |
| 51 | Students will pay only 20% of the Community Charge providing they are undertaking a full time course of higher education . |
| 52 | But the jamboree could well turn into one of those parties where half the guests fail to turn up , and everyone else tries terribly hard to pretend that they are having a marvellous time . |
| 53 | Ma and Father shake hands with everyone and look as if they are having a wonderful time . |
| 54 | No , no , they 're not complaining because they 're getting an easy time , er , I mean , I 've got a couple like that as well . |
| 55 | Oh they 're taking a long time to get these last two runs are n't they ? |
| 56 | Mind you I ca n't talk , I looked in the mirror a couple of weeks ago and my eyes are , I mean are really they 're having a rough time indeed |
| 57 | He says they 're having a good time . |
| 58 | He 's taking her out for meals and they 're having a good time together you know . |
| 59 | She figures they 're having a hard time positioning the thing and do n't want to mess up the good thing they have going with Windows . |
| 60 | They were gone a long time . |