Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 2 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 3 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 4 | Sartori had disappeared a short time later . |
| 5 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |
| 6 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |
| 7 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
| 8 | ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth . |
| 9 | They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what . |
| 10 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 11 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |
| 12 | Christophe was extremely fit and used to the 100 per cent humidity , and had learnt a long time back to carry the absolute minimum — a battered still camera and two oranges for lunch — for a full day in the forest . |
| 13 | You know , you 'd think things had changed a long time ago but erm I remember having Chrissy in that yard when he was a baby in his pushchair where and there was the coalman 's horse and erm |