Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
| 2 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 3 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 4 | He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son . |
| 5 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 6 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |
| 7 | SINEAD Donaghy could n't have chosen a better time to score her first goal of the season . |