Example sentences of "[pers pn] '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 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 .
3 Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time .
4 She 'd had a terrible time at the birth .
5 Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate .
6 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 .
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 Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America .
9 ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’
10 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 .
11 They 'd had a good time .
12 They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox .
16 Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do .
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