Example sentences of "[be] [verb] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spaniards have been told the time of sacrifice is over ; now come the years of effort — an effort to make Spain fit to enter European monetary and economic union in 1997 . |
| 2 | Seven hundred children have been having the time of their lives at a special party . |
| 3 | The boat 's heating is not working , the crew 's sleeping bags are damp and several of them have been seasick , but the verdict is unanimous : they are having the time of their loves . |
| 4 | ‘ For your information , those ‘ poor little girls ’ of yours are having the time of their lives playing tag around our office . |
| 5 | I really am having the time of my life . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm having the time of my life . ’ |
| 7 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the president is filling the time with less provocative suggestions . |
| 9 | The challenge facing large organizations of all types is to reduce the time among these three stages . |
| 10 | ‘ If you ask me , she 's having the time of her life . |
| 11 | Barbel says the key to happiness is adapting to different situations and enjoying them equally … bomber pilot and society hostess , she 's having the time of her life . |
| 12 | And your old uncle is having the time of his life , and wishes he could write better letters . |
| 13 | Goram 's looking after number one Andy Goram is having the time of his life with Rangers and Scotland , but the road to the top has been strewn with pitfalls . |
| 14 | Time zero was considered the time of completion of the test meal . |
| 15 | ( A decade later , Johnson , on a journey to Oxford , sat in the stage-coach beside a Mrs Beresford and her daughter ; the girl was passing the time in knotting , a kind of tatting , in which coloured threads are knitted into decorative knots . |
| 16 | And he was having the time of his life . |