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

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1 to wonder whether I 'd got the right time .
2 She 'd had a terrible time at the birth .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time .
5 They 'd had a good time .
6 They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox .
10 Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do .
11 ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’
12 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 .
13 The reins were in one piece ; no one had noticed the previous time , he 'd been able to make an extra hole and buckle them .
14 Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up .
15 He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’
16 When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had .
17 She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) .
18 Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession .
19 In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged .
20 Clare looked incredibly fit and had had a wonderful time .
21 She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor .
22 ‘ She said she had had a wonderful time and liked the people of Merseyside , so I hope this unfortunate incident does n't remain in her mind . ’
23 He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front .
24 They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children .
25 Strawberry had had a bad time .
26 Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change .
27 Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener .
28 I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour .
29 He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary .
30 Sartori had disappeared a short time later .
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