Example sentences of "i had [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 2 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 5 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 6 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 9 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 10 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 11 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 12 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |