Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 2 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 3 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 4 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 5 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |
| 6 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 7 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 8 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
| 9 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 10 | And Jonathan would never have recognised her as the girl to whom he had become engaged , the easygoing girl whose only concern had been to have a good time , however much money it took . |
| 11 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |