Example sentences of "a [adj] time [pers pn] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |
2 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
3 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
4 | ‘ What a terrible time you must have had — having to fly all this way to the States , and then to see poor , darling Liz and Owen when they 're so terribly , terribly ill . |
5 | ‘ But bearing in mind what a tough time they must have had they 're settling in remarkably well . |
6 | Celia felt that Dr Shalcross was probably thinking what a dismal time she must have had . |
7 | And as I stoode myself alloone upon the Nuwe Yeare night , I prayed unto the frosty moone , with her pale light — what a dull time we should have if we tried to read our way through The Fall of Princes ? |