Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | I was taking a long time ! |
2 | ‘ I was anticipating a bad time but my wife was thrilled because she loves Russia — that 's why my daughter is called Katya , ’ says Mr Faith . |
3 | Ooh I was taken a long time ago . |
4 | Not that I complained because I was having a great time with it , but I noticed that there were a few changes and when I went back to England from Mustique , that was probably the last time MainMan existed . |
5 | Not the most exciting of prospects maybe but even so , I was having a good time . |
6 | A lot of things were happening , sometimes I was having a good time , sometimes it was ghastly , and I used to get totally paranoid smoking dope . |
7 | I was the best-known face in East Anglia , but I was having a terrible time . |
8 | She said I was having a lovely time looking all round these things ! |
9 | And she bought things with her erm twenty five pound voucher said I was having a lovely time and I forgot the time ! |
10 | I was wondering a long time . |
11 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
12 | So now she was having a splendid time visiting friends , and who could blame her ? |
13 | She was having a great time . |
14 | ‘ I was glad that at last she was having a good time , that she was happy , ’ she said in an interview with Vox magazine . |
15 | Davies , Strudwick and Johnson persuaded Nicholas to hand in her resignation because they could see that she was having an impossible time of it . |
16 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
17 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
18 | She might say ‘ no' ’ even if it was planned a long time . |
19 | ‘ I heard it was having a difficult time . ’ |
20 | And so these two brothers , they both got back on , but unfortunately er Les , he was made a full time official of the miners , when he retired , full time official of the miners union . |
21 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
22 | Salim states that he was having a rough time , and was tired and suspicious of Yvette : he does not say that a tribal god commanded him to leave her . |
23 | and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus |
24 | He was having a wonderful time and so was Edith . |
25 | He was having a wonderful time , and had at least , she noticed , retained enough good sense to make sure that his losses at the table were minimal . |