Example sentences of "he [vb past] [art] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 2 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 3 | When he wrote to the Prince of Canino five months later he had a little more time to describe the achievements of his two years ‘ in the wilds of Australia ’ : |
| 4 | This jester-king was a hand-me-down from darker times when the blessings of the New Year were guaranteed by the sacrifice of the mock king after he had a jolly good time . |
| 5 | The night was still young , so whoever the female was who worked peculiar hours , or whatever the reason was that he could n't have seen her earlier — and by then Fabia was certain that ‘ someone he had to see ’ would be female — then she hoped he had a truly lovely time ! |
| 6 | USAC was fine and Mario was a star there , but to be a real star in America , you have to win Indianapolis , and that was one place , Mario recalls , where he had a really lean time of it . |
| 7 | He waited a very long time before saying , ‘ Talk , talk , talk , a man ca n't get a word in edgeways . ’ |