Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | She 's going to have a ripping time . |
| 32 | ‘ We 're going to have a wonderful time , ’ she had promised the smiling five-year-old . |
| 33 | ‘ I just know you 're going to have a wonderful time ! ’ |
| 34 | We seem to have a good time whenever we 're out and always have something to talk about , which is really great . |
| 35 | Citing cases , though usually a necessary part of the moot , tends to take a long time and to be boring for the audience . |
| 36 | Some birds manage to nest a second time within the season , and it is these birds , again with recent experience , which breed at the end of the season . |
| 37 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman and I manage to spend a little time in Lancashire together , and that he will come to Bath . |
| 38 | ‘ This is going to take a long time , ’ said Tony . |
| 39 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 40 | It 's going to take a long time yet . |
| 41 | That 's going to take a long time . |
| 42 | We have come to realize that many of us will not see the improvements in our quality of life , as this is going to take a long time . |
| 43 | ‘ It 's just going to take a little time to put into operation . |
| 44 | Erm we used at one time as you remember to have a full time education officer and er for a number of reasons er that er is no longer the case . |
| 45 | ‘ I like a drink and I like to have a good time ! |
| 46 | Well , I think the thing for me is I do n't feel like I have to look brilliant , I just like to have a good time . |
| 47 | Or , if you like to spend a long time in the tub , you might like a wider one , which may well fit into the existing space . |
| 48 | The Saddlery Courses are designed for people wishing to earn a full time living from making and repairing saddlery or for anyone who just wants to supplement their existing income , as they state ‘ whatever you want from this course , either to earn money or to save money , it is designed for you . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 50 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 51 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 52 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 53 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 54 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
| 55 | I suppose fresh meat is better but you 're only suppose to keep a certain time anyway even in the freezer . |
| 56 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 57 | We arrived in Venice with time to spare before catching the train to Bologna , where we would have to change a third time for Parma . |
| 58 | Boss James Watson says it is still pretty bleak out there in the market , and removals continue to have a rough time . |
| 59 | She waited to see if McGee would make it back from the drawing room then , fearful lest he should have to ring a second time , she opened the door . |
| 60 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |