Example sentences of "[verb] have 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 professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She has had a bad time . |
| 8 | WW has had a difficult time , suffering heavy losses on its glass side , but profits could be achieved this year . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Bowater has had a miserable time since joining the Footsie last week , the share price falling a good 10 p.c . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A man gets tired of his business and his family , and he wants to have a good time . |
| 14 | I want to work with people who want to have a good time . |
| 15 | You want to have a good time and paint the town red this weekend , but somehow you feel restricted and constrained from enjoying life . |
| 16 | ‘ Users just want to have a good time , ’ he says . |
| 17 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 20 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 21 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 22 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What sort of crazy person would choose to have a hard time ? |
| 26 | But those I did see seemed to have a harder time . |
| 27 | we 're not going to play golf , we 're going to have a good time . |
| 28 | And tonight he was going to have a good time . |
| 29 | I 'm going to have a good time , she told herself firmly when she heard André 's knock on the door . |
| 30 | Whatever , Yeb walks past grabbing my arm and tells me we 're going to have a good time . |