Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I stopped mourning a long time ago . ’
2 She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass .
3 to wonder whether I 'd got the right time .
4 She 'd had a terrible time at the birth .
5 ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything .
6 Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time .
7 They 'd had a good time .
8 They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too .
9 She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive .
10 On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing .
11 He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox .
12 Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do .
13 ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’
14 Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time .
15 It seemed to take a long time .
16 It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone .
17 He 'd realized a long time ago that he 'd married a woman who cuddled complete strangers in the street and probably had a season ticket for West Ham in her handbag .
18 He later admitted deleting a Financial Times file .
19 It was interesting and exciting and I began to forget the bad times in Hong Kong .
20 I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle .
21 The child was lured into a car but managed to escape a short time later .
22 It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster 's .
23 Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago .
24 Benton and his Assistant Editor managed to keep the New Times of Burma going and we could still use the radio , but it was obvious that things were moving to a climax , and I was desperately afraid that violence would develop throughout the country .
25 For him raising hell meant having a wonderful time .
26 Swindon did see the good times .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 In the end , I really did have a good time at College .
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