Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
2 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
3 | On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing . |
4 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
5 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
6 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
7 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
8 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 ) . |
11 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
12 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
13 | ‘ She said she had had a wonderful time and liked the people of Merseyside , so I hope this unfortunate incident does n't remain in her mind . ’ |
14 | Her bosses , unlike some , loved achievers , and encouraged her to write and broadcast , until with the publication of her biography The Improbable Puritan she left to become a full time writer . |