Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] time [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd like to spend a little more time with her than that . ’ |
| 3 | Had I spent a little more time with it I could have justified asking money for my very first attempt at using the Tascam 228 ! |
| 4 | As indicated in previous correspondence , my clients are not envisaging a ‘ walk away ’ deal and therefore the next stage is to arrange a mutually convenient time for you to meet with my clients . |
| 5 | If it had been Rime Giants following us we would have had a more difficult time of it ; they enjoy such conditions . |
| 6 | In fact , this was a totally disastrous time for her to come face to face with him . |
| 7 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 8 | The gentlemen of the press had had a fairly lean time of it so far . |
| 9 | I get pretty unavailable its a really good time for you to get in an argument with me . |
| 10 | USAC was fine and Mario was a star there , but to be a real star in America , you have to win Indianapolis , and that was one place , Mario recalls , where he had a really lean time of it . |
| 11 | The rain had stopped and Hunt had a relatively easy time of it to win . |
| 12 | Animals that feed in these ways have a relatively easy time of it . |
| 13 | I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front . |
| 14 | ‘ I realize this is a pretty terrible time for you , and I do n't want to butt in . |
| 15 | It was generally agreed that Ella ruled the roost and that ‘ poor Miss Dean ’ had a pretty thin time of it . |
| 16 | With one or two notable exceptions , among them Tchaikovsky 's First String Quartet and Piano Trio , and Borodin 's two quarters , 19th century Russian chamber music has a pretty thin time of it . |
| 17 | As our Church is itself in a confusion Thee Thyself often experienced when on this earth in places such as , for example , Gethsemane , which was , by anyone 's standards , a pretty tough time for You . |
| 18 | David Hughes-Hallet explains ‘ We do n't actually own the reserve , we just manage it by agreement with the owner , so the sale is a very uncertain time for us . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been a very frustrating time for me , ’ admitted Small , who was an instant hit at Upton Park after signing from Brighton . |
| 20 | It had been a very unhappy time for him , especially since he knew that his advancing years prevented him from getting a job as a carman . |
| 21 | Doctors have a very rough time of it . ’ |
| 22 | This was a very trying time for me , and the people who ought to be offering support were offering only insults . |
| 23 | Erm , but it 's obviously been a very trying time for them . |
| 24 | He then had a number of convulsions , and it was a very worrying time for us all . |
| 25 | Then William and Harry would have had the support of their parents during what must undoubtedly be a very traumatic time for them . |
| 26 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 27 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |
| 28 | He was n't asleep ; it was just a very difficult time for him . |
| 29 | although he must be sixty odd erm and it 's obviously a very difficult time for him . |
| 30 | It must be a very difficult time for her . |