Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adj] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction . |