Example sentences of "have [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved him , as much as an alien can entertain love for a being on a green planet where she knows she has only a certain time . |
| 2 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 3 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 4 | Wolfgang , meanwhile , was having rather a good time in Vienna on his own , staying sometimes with his friends Leutgeb the horn-player and the Puchbergs , who kept him fed , and going out drinking with an old friend , Emmanuel Schikaneder , an actor , singer , writer and producer and the manager of the Theater auf der Wieden in the suburbs . |
| 5 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |
| 6 | We used to have quite a good time . |
| 7 | Then he remembered the guard back at Wissembourg and knew he had only a limited time to cover his tracks . |
| 8 | As it was a weekend , all the bigger-wig doctors were not on duty but , knowing of Nigel 's condition and that he had only a short time to live , they brought him through . |
| 9 | Leech had only a short time to go before his own appointment came to an end , but thought that under the circumstances he should offer his resignation . |
| 10 | They had only a short time before followed the tantalising fresh scent-trail laid by Grant and Larsen , which they had then lost at the foot of the house wall . |
| 11 | The ballroom had been thrown wide to accommodate the funeral guests , and Mrs Diggory was busy serving refreshments to the gentlemen who had just a short time since returned from the graveside of the deceased Lady Merchiston . |
| 12 | I did my usual tap dancing on the table , but actually had quite a good time . |
| 13 | and then er had quite a nice time . |
| 14 | After a short while he found that the gypsies were taking their horses to him to be shod ; and he had quite a busy time shoeing gypsy horses . |
| 15 | He had been at large in occupied France and had quite a tough time of it , but at least he survived and came back to Baldersdale . |
| 16 | If the ERM continues to impose on this country an unemployment rate 750,000 above what it would otherwise be — and that is the average for Europe — we have only a short time before the racist and neo-fascist plague descends on us also — which is why launching the Anti-Racist Alliance was so urgent . |
| 17 | I am now in Capt. Friend 's office and have only a short time to write before the post leaves . |
| 18 | Panic will not be too far away if having collected all your information you have only a little time to write the speech . |
| 19 | I shall not give way to my hon. Friend , as I believe that I have done so once already and I have only a little time left . |
| 20 | But you also have only a little time . |