Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 2 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 3 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 4 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 5 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 6 | Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession . |
| 7 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 8 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 9 | Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener . |
| 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 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 12 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 13 | Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage . |
| 14 | My informant ( who wishes to be anonymous but nevertheless truthful ) had spent a short time in his early days as a signalman at OA & GB Junction Signal box . |
| 15 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 16 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 17 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 18 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 19 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 20 | Darlington had waited a long time for a shopping centre , she said , but the wait had its advantages . |
| 21 | It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction . |