Example sentences of "[pers pn] have have a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had a great time , ’ Ashley said , thanking Vitor when he brought the car to a halt . |
| 4 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry sir , I 've had a tough time with this . |
| 6 | When the sightseeing tour was over , Little Billy sat down again on a large branch and said to the whole company of Minpins , ‘ Look , I 've had a lovely time with you all , but how am I ever going to get home again ? |
| 7 | But looking back on his past he can say simply : ‘ I have had a good time . ’ |
| 8 | Joel , 38 , who won Gola League title honours with Runcorn 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have had a good time as a player and I have decided that enough is enough . |
| 9 | ‘ I have had a great time at Sunderland , but I am ambitious and want to play in the Premier League . |
| 10 | You and I have had a great time over the last 32 years … most of the time . |
| 11 | ‘ I have had a wonderful time trying to select flowers that will complement each of you . |
| 12 | She has had a bad time . |
| 13 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 14 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 15 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yeah , so you 've had a good time then ? |
| 19 | ‘ No , you 've had a bad time , and now you 're snapping out of it , that 's all . |
| 20 | ‘ My son , you 've had a bad time , I can see it in your face . |
| 21 | I feel recently you 've had a glum time . |
| 22 | Oh , yes , you 've had a lovely time . |
| 23 | " You 've had a hard time , Miss Chilcott . " |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , not exactly , I mean , I did n't think that carefully … but you have had a rough time , you must admit . ’ |
| 29 | We hope you have had a pleasant time wherever you have been . |
| 30 | Erm but she 's had a nice time . |