Example sentences of "[verb] had a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting in the third round could be fourth seed Boris Becker , who has had a torrid time in the build-up to the French Championships but who has a good chance to find his feet with a first round match against 579th-ranked French wild card Nicolas Escude . |
| 2 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Payton has had a torrid time . |
| 3 | Hodge , who joined Leeds from Nottingham Forest in a £900,000 deal , has had a frustrating time this season . |
| 4 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
| 5 | The former Charlton youngster has had a harrowing time at Wednesday since his £250,000 move in January last year — but is aiming to finally win over the Hillsborough boo-boys . |
| 6 | She has had a bad time . |
| 7 | WW has had a difficult time , suffering heavy losses on its glass side , but profits could be achieved this year . |
| 8 | Lloyd 's has had a difficult time recently but it remains vital if London is to retain its pre-eminent position in the world insurance market . ’ |
| 9 | Bowater has had a miserable time since joining the Footsie last week , the share price falling a good 10 p.c . |
| 10 | Even Disney , the most successful studio of the late 1980s , has had a tough time launching Hollywood Pictures , the baby sister of its Touchstone studio . |
| 11 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 12 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 13 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 14 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 15 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Ian and Barbara meet — the latter having had a difficult time avoiding Nero 's amorous advances — and with the help of Tavius ( who is a Christian ) , they manage to escape from the city . |
| 19 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
| 20 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
| 21 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |
| 22 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 24 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 25 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Anyone who survived with Lennie must have had a tough time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ You two appear to have had a good time , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |
| 30 | With these objects , in their millennium of power , the Celts seem to have had a splendid time scraping and whipping Europe into shape . |