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 | 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 ) . |
3 | Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession . |
4 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener . |
7 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
13 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
14 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
15 | Darlington had waited a long time for a shopping centre , she said , but the wait had its advantages . |