Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a movement she 'd made a million times before , yet as soon as her fingers came into contact with his thick , silky hair she felt a jolt as though an electric current had shot right through her , making her start back in surprise . |
| 2 | They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 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 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 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 | Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America . |
| 12 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 13 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 14 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 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 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 18 | Nicola had phoned a dozen times , without luck . |
| 19 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 20 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 21 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 22 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 27 | Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Clare looked incredibly fit and had had a wonderful time . |
| 30 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |