Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah Miles has a fine old time as the wife , alternating that disconcertingly seraphic smile with lots of mad laughter and howls of outrage , while Greg Hicks suggests a bitter soul in torment as Harry , all cold sarcasm and inner pain . |
| 2 | FT-SE has a high old time |
| 3 | CORONATION STREET star Bill Roache has a high old time with two big fans . |
| 4 | Steve Cram , Jarrow 's world mile record holder , has a valid qualifying time from last year and runs his first race at the distance this year in the Northern League at Leeds this Saturday . |
| 5 | In ways such as these , late Roman bishops worked slowly , by piecemeal additions and elaborations of regularly recurrent observances , to define a new sacred time in which the Christian life was to be wholly caught up , until the sacred time of the old pagan past was slowly forgotten , or emptied of its charge of religiosity . |
| 6 | Right every time you 've got a floppy black time thing with a tail |
| 7 | There 's lots of talking and laughing when they do that — they look like they 've had a real good time . |
| 8 | She 's had a lovely fun time wearing them . |
| 9 | Erm it 's , it 's , negative numbers are n't a natural thing , fractions are actually easier and that was what happened in the history of mathematics , fractions were developed a long long time before negative numbers , the old Greeks used to play about with fractions quite a lot . |
| 10 | See after a breast operation does it take a long long time with stitches ? |
| 11 | Er as we know round about July August time , the remaining nine P C's will be er turned into civilians wave of a magic wand the biggest problem there is the total loss of our skills base overnight effectively , the second thing is it 'll take a long long time to get them trained particularly in relation to A L O work . |
| 12 | She said I 'd have a real good time here — playing sports and sleeping in the dorm with all the other boys . |
| 13 | Charges at long stay car parks Nun 's Close and Yorke Square , both in Richmond , rear of Leyburn Market Place , Gayle Lane , Hawes , and Muker car park in Swaledale will have a maximum waiting time of ten hours with a scale of charges running from 40p for the first two hours and thereafter 20p per hour up to a maximum of £1 per day . |
| 14 | Sitting in the foyer of their Salzburg hotel — between ‘ shoots ’ , obviously — Paul , guitarist brother Niall and drumming hair bear Ashley Keating are gulping down mineral water , babbling on about the ‘ fierce ’ sights of Austria and generally behaving like men who are having a blinking good time , thank record companies very much . |
| 15 | So er I was having a rare old time . |
| 16 | All laughing , all having a real good time … |
| 17 | Its looking good for both Swindon and Oxford , but down in the third division Hereford are having a tough old time … they 're just four points and four places off the bottom of the table … on Saturday they missed out at Lincoln … they lost two-nil |
| 18 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 19 | We arrived at the ski chalet just about dusk one Sunday evening and the scene was indeed a happy one , with scores of city folk having a gay old time , well wrapped in woollen jumpers and cardigans , and equipped with the necessary skis and poles . |
| 20 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 21 | It occurs in Henry IV , Part I. Falstaff and the Prince are having a high old time by pretending in turn to be the King chastising Hal for his association with Falstaff . |
| 22 | Apart from the fact that there was trouble with one of the other directors — apparently Jefferson was having a high old time with his wife and , to add insult to injury , charging the hotel rooms to expenses — you may recall that Downton lost two very valuable contracts with players in tennis and golf . |
| 23 | As for the rest , they were on their chairs whooping and dancing and having a high old time , which is what , I think , was intended . |
| 24 | Far from spending long hours on the tiles hunting , scavenging and generally having a high old time with their pals , as tradition and practice dictate , they should be indoors tucked up . |
| 25 | Seems a long long time since we used to do it . |
| 26 | It is also possible to study for these examinations by taking a one-year full time course at The City or Heriot Watt Universities . |
| 27 | And that 's why it took a long long time . |
| 28 | But we do know love will out , and despite a script with the credibility of a Jewish pigfarm , everyone 's going to have a brainless Friday-evening time of it getting there . |
| 29 | I like being in a war and I like being there because it 's a great adventure for me , but my duty is to be there for a reason , not just to have a bloody good time … |
| 30 | To feel nice , to have a little nice time . |