Example sentences of "she have [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 2 | She has had a bad time . |
| 3 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 4 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 15 | Erm but she 's had a nice time . |
| 16 | She 's had a terrible time |
| 17 | She 's grown , she 's changed , she 's had a brilliant time , but her best is yet to come . |
| 18 | White face , dark circles and short temper — she 's had a brilliant time ! |
| 19 | She 's had a bad time and no mistake . ’ |
| 20 | She 's had a bad time , so the buzz has it . |
| 21 | ‘ I had no idea that Mary was on that tack ; she 's a nice girl and she 's had a hard time what with that husband of has and now her father almost bedridden with arthritis . ’ |
| 22 | She 's a fine girl , Seb , and she 's had a hard time . |
| 23 | She 's had a distressing time . |