Example sentences of "[vb past] had a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession . |
| 6 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener . |
| 9 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |