Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 2 | For companies like , pitching to investors has become virtually a full time job . |
| 3 | But he said all he did was people he 'd met quite a few times now , they say that you know like cos he 's very funny , he comes out with me , god Sally what 's the matter with you , you 've been drinking or something , I said no , that 's how he is he 's not |
| 4 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 5 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 6 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 7 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 8 | This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place . |
| 9 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 10 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 11 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 12 | Lewes had spent only a short time with the unit , but had impressed everyone with his absolute dedication to his work . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've tried quite a few times but mine are never any good . ’ |
| 14 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 15 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ What I must do next season is get really , really fit and prove everybody wrong , which I have done about a thousand times . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We have slept together a few times , ’ she said , ‘ but we 've never done it during school hours . |
| 18 | ‘ We have to give those who have lived here a long time the right to become German citizens , ’ Johannes Gerster , deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group , said at the weekend . |
| 19 | Right so on on top of all this , we 've actually got as Sue 's mentioned quite a few times , we 've actually got to keep the damn thing afloat , well after introducing all this . |