Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was alone with the man she believed had killed once and tried to kill a second time . |
| 2 | When Pitt wants to have a good time he invites his ‘ little group of buddies ’ , including actor Dermot Mulroney — a whiz on the cello — over for an old-fashioned ‘ hootinanny ’ jam session . |
| 3 | A man gets tired of his business and his family , and he wants to have a good time . |
| 4 | I want to work with people who want to have a good time . |
| 5 | You want to have a good time and paint the town red this weekend , but somehow you feel restricted and constrained from enjoying life . |
| 6 | ‘ Users just want to have a good time , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Just four days after completing a 30-hour journey from Edinburgh to Darwin they were expected to overcome a nine-hour time difference and temperatures in the 90 's to beat a Northern Territories Invitation XV . |
| 8 | Before focusing on the way in which educational accountability has manifested itself in evaluation procedures we want to spend a little time exploring this more general picture . |
| 9 | So we do n't really need to make a set time actually , if we 're all there we just all come and we just . |
| 10 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 11 | What sort of crazy person would choose to have a hard time ? |
| 12 | But those I did see seemed to have a harder time . |
| 13 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 14 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 15 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 16 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 17 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 18 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 19 | It seemed bizarre that a band plagued by such huge problems on an international scale should wish to waste their time attempting to sue a small time and , to be frank , penniless magazine . |
| 20 | It can be used to define a typical time scale of the turbulence . |
| 21 | I never say my work is going to last a long time — usually five to ten years , though obviously the smaller pieces which are kept inside last as long as people look after them . |
| 22 | The war 's going to last a long time yet . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ For one who intends to stay a long time with us , Englishman , you know little of us . |
| 24 | we 're not going to play golf , we 're going to have a good time . |
| 25 | And tonight he was going to have a good time . |
| 26 | I 'm going to have a good time , she told herself firmly when she heard André 's knock on the door . |
| 27 | Whatever , Yeb walks past grabbing my arm and tells me we 're going to have a good time . |
| 28 | We 're all going to have a terrific time together , you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 29 | Clearly , a character wearing a mask is going to have a tricky time with some Fel tests . |
| 30 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |