Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your GP may be able to offer out-of-work-hours cervical screening and you should ask your employer about workplace screening or getting the necessary time off to have it done . |
| 2 | Your GP may be able to off out-of-work-hours cervical screening and you should ask your employer about workplace screening or getting the necessary time off to have it done . |
| 3 | In this phase it is well worth cutting the running time down , in order to spend 10 minutes on a thorough stretching programme . |
| 4 | Does the Prime Minister recall saying a short time ago in his personal statement — in this document from the Conservative party — that ’ if ’ Government ’ borrowing takes the strain , taxes have to go up ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 6 | Judging by the number of messages , everyone on the new list is having a great time already ! |
| 7 | I 'm having a great time here . |
| 8 | This contrived notion of a rock'n'roll band touring around — we 're doing all that shit and we 're having a great time too . |
| 9 | We 're supposed to be having a good time today ! ’ |
| 10 | I mean , I look at John Lee Hooker , he 's still smiling , he 's having a good time just doing it . |
| 11 | In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too . |
| 12 | And in The Pope and the Witch , the comedy is so puerile and shambolic that there 's never any risk of having a good time anyway . |
| 13 | Henry liked his company because it was convivial ; the staying in bed disconcerted him partly because they went on having a good time together however energetically Finch adopted inertia . |
| 14 | He 's taking her out for meals and they 're having a good time together you know . |
| 15 | Yes , well there is another man and she 's told Paul frankly she 's lapping up the attention , he 's taking her out for meals and their having a good time together you know , why its great , but as soon as he 's paid for , for the goods and got , got the goods , the chaps going to go off looking for another . |
| 16 | He probably thinks everyone is still having a good time out there somewhere in the fog . |
| 17 | Mind you I ca n't talk , I looked in the mirror a couple of weeks ago and my eyes are , I mean are really they 're having a rough time indeed |
| 18 | ( 7° ) I 'm writing to say I 'm having a marvellous time here The gestural usage must be glossed a little differently , as " the pragmatically given space , proximal to speaker 's location at CT , that includes the point or location gesturally indicated " . |
| 19 | Pupils at Kensington infants ' school are having a marvellous time just mucking about . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're having a marvellous time out there . |
| 21 | Poor thing , she must be having a rotten time just now . |
| 22 | ‘ Enduring ’ means nothing if you 're having a rotten time now , so you guys love Shakespeare and in the meantime I ca n't get a good hot cup of coffee in this country . |
| 23 | , my first years had two children , had no breast problems and I 'm having a horrendous time just now and I 'm on H R T , I 'm on my third different kind ! |
| 24 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 25 | Ed , — Having a lovely time here in Spain , the trip over was dandy . |
| 26 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 27 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |
| 28 | ‘ Matthew , ’ she gasped , surfacing a long time later . |
| 29 | Such a phenomenon may be explained in various ways , but one factor of acknowledged importance is certainly the rapidity of economic and social change , which tends to separate more sharply the experience , expectations and outlook of older and younger generations , as Mead ( 1970 ) argued in a study in which she likened the ‘ dissident young ’ to pioneers who are exploring a new time rather than a new country . |
| 30 | ‘ I stopped mourning a long time ago . ’ |