Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only I had a decent time management system , you know , I could be really effective , and all the rest of it . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , perhaps I had a bland time , ’ she retorted ineptly . |
| 3 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 4 | So er so you had a good time ? |
| 5 | So you had a good time ? |
| 6 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
| 7 | A bird kept in captivity is fed all year round , so obviously it has an easier time than one in the wild which has to feed itself whatever the season , but it still has the hunting instinct . |
| 8 | So it takes a long time think more egalitarian . |
| 9 | So , though I had a bad time , well I had a , I 've had a great life since ! |
| 10 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
| 11 | Oh well you had a good time . |
| 12 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
| 13 | Well you have a good time . |
| 14 | Well we had a wonderful time at Marks and Sparks . |
| 15 | You might get a real bad one and then you had a rough time but mostly they gave way and very often , if you got a drunk , another policeman saw you were having some difficulty . |
| 16 | times for auctioning though was er when shops went bankrupt , er especially chocolate shops , cos then we had a good time after he 'd done because we usually got loads of chocolate which was a luxury . . |
| 17 | Say from one till ten cos they 're the early ones and then they get a certain time , then your numbers eleven to twenty |
| 18 | The driver , as it turned out , was a retired admiral , and unfortunately he spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 19 | And and sometimes it takes a long time , does n't it . |
| 20 | Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone . |
| 21 | The shower was wonderfully soothing and afterwards she spent a long time drying her hair and putting on her make-up . |