Example sentences of "[verb] [art] good time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Jean Francois Poitevin , who finished third last year and has a best time of 1:32:22 , has pulled out in protest .
2 Joel , 38 , who won Gola League title honours with Runcorn 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have had a good time as a player and I have decided that enough is enough .
3 It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving .
4 She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) .
5 In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it .
6 The priests of the old deities had emerged from the desert or from hiding in neglected provincial cities in Shemau and To-mehu , and established themselves again , without difficulty , the people grateful to have the old gods returned to them , who demanded no more than unquestioning duty , propitiation and sacrifice ; gods who did not require a man to think for himself ; gods who forgave sin if the price was right , and who guaranteed a good time in the Hereafter .
7 The locals , in theory , should have a better time of it , the grapevine telling them where the ice is best .
8 In the end , I really did have a good time at College .
9 Did you have a good time at your party ?
10 ‘ All this type of modern music that we play , if you think back to when it all started , whether it 's thrash , rap , disco , rock'n'roll , it all started with black people in slavery and poverty in the southern States , and about the only thing they could ever have a good time with was sex .
11 Bohemian rhapsody Everybody was having a good time on the Left Bank after the war , but the art was surprisingly thin , argues Tim Hilton .
12 The neighbour told the inquest : ‘ He had the freedom of spending money and having a good time with his friends .
13 Jim Bob , laughing , says that some of the crew are here , as much for him to talk to as for their tour responsibilities : ‘ Because if we were n't having a good time with our friends we could n't do this . ’
14 Some neighbours would even tell my daughters that I was n't at home because I was out having a good time with men .
15 Besides having a good time at garden parties , Folly Fellowship members have pledged to fight to preserve ’ lovely and unloved buildings of little purpose from being destroyed .
16 Sounds like the boys and girls are go having a good time at play time does n't it ?
17 It 's one of the busiest nightspots in the Mediterranean and the streets are simply crowded from dusk onwards with young people going about the serious business of enjoying themselves , socialising , trying the local brew , ‘ discovating ’ and generally having a good time until the early hours of the morning !
18 In Ipswich , the Amberstone Bookshop was having a better time of it after a steady year , supported by some strong local titles .
19 The main season for preparing annual reports and accounts will soon be with us — the year end of 83 of the FTSE Top 100 companies falls between 31 December and 31 March — so now seems a good time for finance directors to assess whether their annual tome is user friendly .
20 You sell your time for money to have a better time in the unsold hours .
21 I wanted to prove it was possible to have a good time without getting off my face .
22 The girl had been left without a chaperon and was determined to have a good time with some boys .
23 ‘ In the early days everyone used to have a good time for real .
24 Well , enough to have a good time in the back row at the pictures anyway , ’ and she had certainly not elaborated .
25 Is early March a good time of year to hold the conference ?
26 had the best time of three hours four minutes .
27 And he had a good time with the assembled newshounds , especially when one got him off and running with a question about how he felt about winning a national championship .
28 We had a good time in London , Will and I …
29 I will always maintain that I had a good time in service , and from what I heard there were n't many bad places in the Teesdale area — just the odd one here and there .
30 Elf astrologers and geomancers studied the portents to divine the best time for the new king to begin his reign , and calculated the best time for him to pass through the flame .
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