Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 2 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 3 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 4 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 5 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 6 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 7 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 8 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 9 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 15 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 16 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 17 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |
| 18 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 19 | He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary . |
| 20 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 21 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 22 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
| 23 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 24 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 25 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 26 | When he had tried a third time , the headmaster had made some slightly menacing remarks about brotherhood and commitment . |