Example sentences of "be [v-ing] the time [prep] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Seven hundred children have been having the time of their lives at a special party . |
2 | The boat 's heating is not working , the crew 's sleeping bags are damp and several of them have been seasick , but the verdict is unanimous : they are having the time of their loves . |
3 | ‘ For your information , those ‘ poor little girls ’ of yours are having the time of their lives playing tag around our office . |
4 | I really am having the time of my life . |
5 | ‘ I 'm having the time of my life . ’ |
6 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
7 | Meanwhile , the president is filling the time with less provocative suggestions . |
8 | ‘ If you ask me , she 's having the time of her life . |
9 | Barbel says the key to happiness is adapting to different situations and enjoying them equally … bomber pilot and society hostess , she 's having the time of her life . |
10 | And your old uncle is having the time of his life , and wishes he could write better letters . |
11 | Goram 's looking after number one Andy Goram is having the time of his life with Rangers and Scotland , but the road to the top has been strewn with pitfalls . |
12 | ( A decade later , Johnson , on a journey to Oxford , sat in the stage-coach beside a Mrs Beresford and her daughter ; the girl was passing the time in knotting , a kind of tatting , in which coloured threads are knitted into decorative knots . |
13 | And he was having the time of his life . |
14 | She was reading The Times with the aid of a magnifying glass . |