Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 2 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 3 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 4 | But anyway we 've got a tight we 've got a tight time scale . |
| 5 | We 've got a tight time scale so we 've got to do this reasonably . |
| 6 | Yeah we 've had a brilliant time . |
| 7 | I mean I 'll be upset about our Whisky , 'cos we 're , I mean , we 've had a long time , although she 's not a pet pet , you know what I mean . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've had a marvellous time , ’ they beam , ‘ really marvellous . ’ |
| 9 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 10 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 11 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Ceauşescu admitted at the beginning of the 1980s that it was easier to change the economy and society than people themselves : ‘ As you can see , we have had an easy time constructing factories . |