Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are forecasting a very exciting time developing our activities in London and we will continue to gear our services to the clients requirements and ensure that our approach is a refreshing change . ’ |
| 2 | I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front . |
| 3 | school whilst , through the gates , his schoolmates were having a thoroughly good time . |
| 4 | Having a spiffingly good time on the French and Italian beaches of the Mediterranean was the summer order of the decade , although as Noel Coward caustically commented , some would-be hedonists spent hours ‘ … squabbling viciously and brushing flakes of their own sun-scorched flesh from the table . ’ |
| 5 | I rather pity the young who live in London because they must be having a particularly difficult time . |
| 6 | I can remember having a really happy time with other relatives after her funeral . |
| 7 | But there was another woman , at the second table : a woman only half the age of her executively suited escort ; a woman who was having a fairly difficult time by the look of things , earnestly rehearsing a whole chapter of body language with her ringless hands . |
| 8 | Keke was having a totally unsatisfactory time at Williams and Lauda the miseries at McLaren . |
| 9 | I realize I 'm sort of giving a very , very negative impression , and I do n't want to give the suggestion either that being unemployed has to be always bad , that all unemployed people are having a totally horrible time all of the time and are feeling very depressed all of the time — that 's not the case — but I 'm afraid that is more like the average erm situation , the typical situation , than otherwise . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm having a damn good time , and sometimes I worry that I 'm going to have to pay for it all when I 'm 40 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm having a damn good time ’ |
| 12 | I liked him , and he was different from other boys , not at all pushy , except pushy to please I suppose , but even that was sweet in a way — it made me want to say , it 's all right , do n't fret so much , I 'm having a perfectly nice time , slow down . |
| 13 | I knew in one case that every Saturday morning I would get a letter from a lad who was having a very trying time at an operational training unit , and he begged me week after week , I eventually relented and brought him back ; he nearly went through and completed a second Pathfinder tour . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , we are having a very nice time , thank you . ’ |
| 15 | Another aim , often hinted at , but rarely stated explicitly , was to counter the threat of early sexual and marital relationships — to help the young people ‘ when they are having a very hard time , physically and often morally ’ . |
| 16 | A barman who saw the dance at Berwick 's Quarterbeck Club said last night : ‘ She was having a very enjoyable time and was clearly the life and soul of the party . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're not having a very happy time , are you ? ’ |
| 18 | This has had its effects on tourism and many Welsh attractions are having a very lean time . |
| 19 | ‘ Bangkok , Islamabad , Kabul , Bogotá , Miami , Mexico City , Tijuana , San Diego , Bahamas , Ocho Rios , Ankara , Sofia — Andropulos playing both sides of the fence with those last two , the ethnic Turks are having a very bad time in Bulgaria just now , but Andropulos would n't let that interfere with his business interests — and Amsterdam . |
| 20 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |