Example sentences of "have [art] [adj] time [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bird kept in captivity is fed all year round , so obviously it has an easier time than one in the wild which has to feed itself whatever the season , but it still has the hunting instinct . |
| 2 | The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
| 3 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 4 | David 's been a really good friend to me , and he 's had a tough time because of it . |
| 5 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 6 | and read and erm and anyway erm and er and I said did you have a good time cos Andy cos they all went to Giles 's eighteenth you know Giles |
| 7 | ‘ I thought she 'd have a rougher time than she did , unlike some team members who were like bulls at a gate . |
| 8 | The visitors were having a great time until suddenly the lights went up and bar staff started howling , ‘ Give us your pots and glasses and start moving on out , PLEASE ! ’ . |
| 9 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 10 | I go out all day to college having a lovely time while you stay at home making yourself ill . |
| 11 | times for auctioning though was er when shops went bankrupt , er especially chocolate shops , cos then we had a good time after he 'd done because we usually got loads of chocolate which was a luxury . . |
| 12 | I sold the jewels I was wearing and de Michelet and I had a splendid time until the money was gone . |
| 13 | The first women newsreaders had a difficult time because they were constantly ‘ filtered ’ through their sexuality . |
| 14 | Mr Hill said : ‘ Mr McGregor appreciated something was not right but had no more time than a split second to begin to look round the corner of his chair when he was struck two extremely heavy blows to the base of his skull and the back of his neck by this defendant wielding a heavy fire extinguisher . |
| 15 | he could n't manage to think and I 've never learnt how to manage to , that erm , the engine , so we got rid of the boat and then our son he 's got a big boat , he 's got a real speedboat , a real big one and Julian he 's got a smaller speedboat , so both of the boys go there , when we go camping we always have a good time because it 's all a family affair like , you know , always get together and erm go on , on a boat , fishing , having fresh mackerels come back and clean them up and fry them straight fresh from the sea , never tasted as fresh , fresh as , fresher fish than , than |
| 16 | ‘ Women have a harder time than men . |
| 17 | Vegetarians have a hard time as the staple diet is meat and dumplings and fresh vegetables are difficult to find . |
| 18 | The filming in the tropics was ‘ just nerve-racking ’ , prompting Dustin to say that ‘ all pictures are hard work , although some actors have an easier time than others . |