Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've picked a fucking good time to pay people a visit ! ’ |
| 2 | Yeah he done a real good time |
| 3 | ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago . |
| 4 | Her mother had died a very short time ago , in reality , and Jenna had been more than capable of dealing with her own well-being . |
| 5 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 6 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |
| 7 | I am extremely sorry , but I have just had a most trying time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She 's had a pretty rotten time in some ways , ’ he said . |
| 9 | If it had been Rime Giants following us we would have had a more difficult time of it ; they enjoy such conditions . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's had a very unhappy time . |
| 11 | By the time Corrie 's wedding took place Philippa was over the worst of her sadness and in a good position to enjoy it to the full — ; the closest to the centre of the ceremonies , yet fancy free ; and she had had a very good time — much affectionate sympathy from aunts and cousins , and husbands of aunts and cousins , and admiration and flirtation and kissing enough . |
| 12 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 13 | Like Alciston and most other Sussex parishes it seems to have had a fairly prosperous time until the mid-fourteenth century ; the early over-large tax demands of the Norman overlords had been replaced by a much more balanced local appreciation of the revenue possibilities . |
| 14 | The gentlemen of the press had had a fairly lean time of it so far . |
| 15 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 16 | Howard says : ‘ If it all stopped tomorrow , we can say we 've had a really good time , and that 's what matters . |
| 17 | ‘ We were one of four British teams competing in an event that attracted 19 teams in all and about 2,000 competitors , and we have had a really good time . ’ |
| 18 | Christopher 's had a really good time so have I so has Robert . |
| 19 | I 've had a really horrendous time while you 've been away cavorting with your Jews … ’ |
| 20 | Is he the same driver that you let go two years ago , he 's an old man of the track a little at , he has n't had a terribly successful time at Ferrari . |
| 21 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman need not think that there is any military support for the idea that in the past the Navy has argued for a three-boat solution , and he will be given a very rough time by the Navy if he makes such a suggestion . |
| 23 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 24 | In comparison with the inhibition effect , however , this facilitation only occurred when the subject was given a relatively long time to read the context . |
| 25 | Large public meetings were called in the main county towns to test reaction : CEGB speakers were given a consistently hard time . |
| 26 | ‘ He stated it had all started a very long time ago when he was serving in the army in India and he admitted to still being sexually frustrated . ’ |
| 27 | By fraction is meant a very short time indeed . |
| 28 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
| 29 | The journey , despite the distance between London and the prison , had taken a surprisingly short time . |
| 30 | ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another . |