Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | All moot court judges may and should give counsel a hot time by interjecting questions and objections to his argument . |
| 2 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 3 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 4 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 5 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 6 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
| 7 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
| 8 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 9 | Anyone who survived with Lennie must have had a tough time . |
| 10 | It must have taken a long time . |
| 11 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 12 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 13 | He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son . |
| 14 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 15 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 16 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 17 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 18 | The hurt itself may have happened a long time ago , and may even be something that you have forgotten all about . |
| 19 | What sort of crazy person would choose to have a hard time ? |
| 20 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 21 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |
| 22 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 23 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 24 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 25 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 26 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 27 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |