Example sentences of "[verb] have 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 | I just remember having a great time and then feeling tired and going off and having a sleep . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | ‘ I like a drink and I like to have a good time ! |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
| 41 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 45 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 46 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Anyone who survived with Lennie must have had a tough time . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 51 | And when she 's go , when she 's having having a good time she ta , she 's like one of the nurses you know , she helps them out but when she 's on her downer she 'll sit there and she wo n't do anything |
| 52 | Boss James Watson says it is still pretty bleak out there in the market , and removals continue to have a rough time . |
| 53 | The net result is like sitting in a club with all the right credentials but failing to have a good time . |
| 54 | For him raising hell meant having a wonderful time . |
| 55 | ‘ You two appear to have had a good time , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |
| 56 | With these objects , in their millennium of power , the Celts seem to have had a splendid time scraping and whipping Europe into shape . |
| 57 | My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go . |
| 58 | Ferngrove Park , with its woods and meadows and deep thickets full of secret nooks and crannies , was a place where the Brownies really did have a grand time . |
| 59 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 60 | In the end , I really did have a good time at College . |