Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has angered us a few times , Sheridan , Vinny , Eric , Batty all gone but we 're still up there , second in the league . |
| 2 | Understanding the disk organisation has taken me a little time , but this has been amply repaid by the speed and ease of data storage which the hard disk gives me . |
| 3 | That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there . |
| 5 | " It has taken me a long time to get here , " said the jubilant Mancunian as he left the press centre to start his celebrations . |
| 6 | This view of acting behaviour as no more than role function has taken us a long time to understand . |
| 7 | Then , if she 'd given him a good time and he was a collaborator , he might not report her . |
| 8 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 9 | Despite his having given her a tough time on set , Lysette is still very fond of Woody Allen : ‘ He gave me the courage to be brave . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
| 11 | It may have taken me a long time to find out about him . |
| 12 | Ernest Jarvis did what he had to do elaborately , and it must have taken him a long time . |
| 13 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
| 14 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 15 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
| 16 | The Street Duties sergeant at the police station had given him a hard time . |
| 17 | Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat . |
| 18 | A vowel No I 've heard it a few times |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 20 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 21 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 22 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 23 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 24 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 25 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 26 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 27 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |
| 28 | You 've told me a million times how beautiful my island is , ’ Fernando laughed , sautéing garlic and onions . |
| 29 | ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |