Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 3 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 7 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 8 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 . |