Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener . |
| 2 | Nicola had phoned a dozen times , without luck . |
| 3 | Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage . |
| 4 | Darlington had waited a long time for a shopping centre , she said , but the wait had its advantages . |
| 5 | 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 . |