Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 2 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 3 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 4 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 5 | In the end , I really did have a good time at College . |
| 6 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession . |
| 10 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 11 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 12 | Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener . |
| 13 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | My informant ( who wishes to be anonymous but nevertheless truthful ) had spent a short time in his early days as a signalman at OA & GB Junction Signal box . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 18 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 19 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 20 | Darlington had waited a long time for a shopping centre , she said , but the wait had its advantages . |
| 21 | They stood talking a long time at the crossroads before separating but he did n't offer to see her over the weekend . |