Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [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 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 6 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 7 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 11 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 13 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 14 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 18 | The child was lured into a car but managed to escape a short time later . |
| 19 | It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster 's . |
| 20 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 21 | For him raising hell meant having a wonderful time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the end , I really did have a good time at College . |
| 26 | We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire . |
| 27 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
| 28 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 29 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 30 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |