Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] a [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight .
2 Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Payton has had a torrid time .
3 Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener .
4 Darlington had waited a long time for a shopping centre , she said , but the wait had its advantages .
5 WW has had a difficult time , suffering heavy losses on its glass side , but profits could be achieved this year .
6 Since he was sacked , Robin Smith has become a full time employee of his union , after six months on the dole .
7 In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged .
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