Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.

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1 She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid .
2 So have you had a good time then ?
3 But how can you have a good time when you keep being reminded about ‘ the gulf between people who have stuff and the people who have shit ’ , or that ‘ the world does n't make sense [ to me ] any more ’ ?
4 Did you have a good time when you went up to King 's Lynn ?
5 — Did you have a good time tonight then ? — Yes .
6 ‘ I want you to have a great time tonight , ’ he said several times , ‘ but do n't go without taking away 12 business cards . ’
7 And then across the road she went afterwards , to that there , She had a lovely time there .
8 You had a good time though ?
9 ‘ And do n't forget you have a busy time ahead of you tomorrow .
10 I know your ego finds that hard to believe , but just because we had a good time together for a couple of days does not necessarily mean that I 'm yours to play with whenever you feel like it ! ’
11 Well after we had a good time there for so long then there was transferred down to Aldershot .
12 The money will go towards an extension and towards kitchen equipment in the extension , we had a nice time there , and there was a great deal of gratitude to the G M B.
13 ‘ We both spent most of our time working on the film , walking or sitting about in our dressing gowns and we had a great time together . ’
14 We had a terrible time when my husband was made redundant five years ago .
15 Some of them you remember the table we had a long time ago showing the reactivity of different elements , particularly the metals when we were looking at metals .
16 You know , we had a long time really just to kind of toss out .
17 Anyway , they had a good time out .
18 You do them up , you do n't da you muck them out , dress them over , let them loose they have a easy time like we do .
19 Mass , the most accomplished veteran of Sportscar racing , was just passing the pits entrance when the slight drizzle turned into a downpour : he had a torrid time out there on Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez , spending almost 3 minutes slithering around to the pits .
20 Well the Bill was , who was the manager in those days was very much the manager , and there was one of the directors used to play for the Villa , and he used to more or less look after the playing side which the rest of the directors never seemed to interfere with , they , they left the management up to the manager the selection of the team , Bill and the trainer when they were in the second division was Arthur who 's manager of Derby County now , he had the , I believe he had a sad time when he was at Walsall he , he lost his wife in a car accident and
21 He wanted to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he had a long time ago , but she said it made her feel middle-aged and dull and ordinary , so he must never say it again , especially when other people were around .
22 Sue Owen , director of nursing , said : ‘ He had a short time away with his consultant 's permission .
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