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 . |