Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | we 're not going to play golf , we 're going to have a good time . |
2 | Whatever , Yeb walks past grabbing my arm and tells me we 're going to have a good time . |
3 | ‘ We 're going to have a wonderful time , ’ she had promised the smiling five-year-old . |
4 | ‘ I just know you 're going to have a wonderful time ! ’ |
5 | It can be used to define a typical time scale of the turbulence . |
6 | I 'm going to have a good time , she told herself firmly when she heard André 's knock on the door . |
7 | Just four days after completing a 30-hour journey from Edinburgh to Darwin they were expected to overcome a nine-hour time difference and temperatures in the 90 's to beat a Northern Territories Invitation XV . |
8 | I never say my work is going to last a long time — usually five to ten years , though obviously the smaller pieces which are kept inside last as long as people look after them . |
9 | ‘ This is going to take a long time , ’ said Tony . |
10 | We have come to realize that many of us will not see the improvements in our quality of life , as this is going to take a long time . |
11 | Clearly , a character wearing a mask is going to have a tricky time with some Fel tests . |
12 | The war 's going to last a long time yet . ’ |
13 | It 's going to take a long time yet . |
14 | That 's going to take a long time . |
15 | She 's going to have a ripping time . |
16 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
17 | And tonight he was going to have a good time . |
18 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |
19 | The girl had been left without a chaperon and was determined to have a good time with some boys . |
20 | When the VHS system was launched in Britain five years ago , a single tape speed ( 2.34 cm/s ) was chosen to give a playing time of three hours per cassette . |