Example sentences of "have a [adj] time [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company . |
| 2 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
| 3 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
| 4 | With these objects , in their millennium of power , the Celts seem to have had a splendid time scraping and whipping Europe into shape . |
| 5 | Even Disney , the most successful studio of the late 1980s , has had a tough time launching Hollywood Pictures , the baby sister of its Touchstone studio . |
| 6 | He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son . |
| 7 | Ian and Barbara meet — the latter having had a difficult time avoiding Nero 's amorous advances — and with the help of Tavius ( who is a Christian ) , they manage to escape from the city . |
| 8 | ‘ I have had a wonderful time trying to select flowers that will complement each of you . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's had a hard time getting into the world , ’ Elizabeth replied . |
| 10 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 11 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 12 | If they suss out that you 're a fanatical prospector they 'll have a great time winding you up and sending you off on a series of wild goose chases . |
| 13 | And and would have a good time playing it , cos i There 's enough there , but it 's not you know |
| 14 | If you do n't hold the wire on the floor , the tape will wrap itself round it and you 'll have a terrible time trying to disentangle the resulting blob of sticky goo . ) |
| 15 | If you have to go out to deliberately buy them the chances are that you wo n't but if you buy the occasional packet when you happen to see them you can have a grand time selecting them to effect a change on a sweater at the right time . |
| 16 | You could have a lovely time bouncing up and down in the pulpit , screaming hell fire . ’ |
| 17 | Even though it offers compensation to people who have already bought shops or flats , Albania 's court system , now being rebuilt from scratch after almost 30 years without a justice ministry , will have a hard time sorting out property disputes . |
| 18 | If any of these poor beggars die of cold old Starling will have a hard time digging a hole for them . ’ |
| 19 | They 'd have a hard time proving that , I think , if they were interested in proof ; which I 'm not sure they are . |
| 20 | Some officials have spoken of getting NATO to spread its wings , though they might have a hard time persuading the Canadians and Europeans of that . |
| 21 | He was tremendously successful and his successor will have a hard time emulating him . |
| 22 | But with the size that the baby is already , it 's likely Greene would have a hard time getting her beyond thirty-eight weeks . |
| 23 | While it is true that the speculation is an essential part of science , and true that new ideas may have a hard time gaining acceptance , it does not follow that untested science belongs in court . |
| 24 | I think the NSF would have a hard time answering that question . ’ |
| 25 | This means Zeneca might have a hard time charging much more than Merck 's price for its drug , even if Merrem is better . |
| 26 | But the Chancellor may have a hard time explaining why the pound has to shadow the Deutschmark . |
| 27 | If you are one of the faithful few who keep your machine set up and working during the summer you can have a wonderful time trying out patterns and colour schemes in between knitting those delightful little summer tops . |
| 28 | Similarly , an only child may have a tough time leaving home without the support of brothers and sisters . |
| 29 | There he was , having a grand time pulling off clusters of half-grown green apples and gobbling them up . |
| 30 | They were having a great time looking at the animals and listening as we explained which countries they were all from . |