Example sentences of "you [be] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 2 | You 're having a great time . |
| 3 | ‘ Enduring ’ means nothing if you 're having a rotten time now , so you guys love Shakespeare and in the meantime I ca n't get a good hot cup of coffee in this country . |
| 4 | ‘ Not too far when you 're having a good time . |
| 5 | In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too . |
| 6 | It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're having a marvellous time out there . |
| 8 | you 're having a bad time , use them . |
| 9 | It 's a funny thing though , because mother 's and daughter 's , and er , I love , when my mum comes up she 's a dreadful sleeper and if you 're having a bad time , you get up in the middle of the night to go and make a cup of tea , there 's always a little voice says , yes , let's have a cup of tea dear . |
| 10 | Your birthday tea ready but you were having a better time somewhere else ! |
| 11 | That is left for members of the host community to do , as it busies itself ghettoizing the minority ; and as it ghettoizes it mumbles , and if you listen carefully you can just discern beneath the self-righteousness , the self-congratulation , the following : ‘ Okay , okay , so you were having a hard time in your own country . |