Example sentences of "have a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | With one or two notable exceptions , among them Tchaikovsky 's First String Quartet and Piano Trio , and Borodin 's two quarters , 19th century Russian chamber music has a pretty thin time of it . |
| 2 | It is quite clear that in any examination the examiner has a very short time to spend on any individual question . |
| 3 | One youngster told him : ‘ Everyone has a really good time . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 5 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |
| 6 | I am extremely sorry , but I have just had a most trying time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She 's had a pretty rotten time in some ways , ’ he said . |
| 8 | If it had been Rime Giants following us we would have had a more difficult time of it ; they enjoy such conditions . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's had a very unhappy time . |
| 10 | By the time Corrie 's wedding took place Philippa was over the worst of her sadness and in a good position to enjoy it to the full — ; the closest to the centre of the ceremonies , yet fancy free ; and she had had a very good time — much affectionate sympathy from aunts and cousins , and husbands of aunts and cousins , and admiration and flirtation and kissing enough . |
| 11 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 12 | Like Alciston and most other Sussex parishes it seems to have had a fairly prosperous time until the mid-fourteenth century ; the early over-large tax demands of the Norman overlords had been replaced by a much more balanced local appreciation of the revenue possibilities . |
| 13 | The gentlemen of the press had had a fairly lean time of it so far . |
| 14 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 15 | Howard says : ‘ If it all stopped tomorrow , we can say we 've had a really good time , and that 's what matters . |
| 16 | ‘ We were one of four British teams competing in an event that attracted 19 teams in all and about 2,000 competitors , and we have had a really good time . ’ |
| 17 | Christopher 's had a really good time so have I so has Robert . |
| 18 | I 've had a really horrendous time while you 've been away cavorting with your Jews … ’ |
| 19 | Is he the same driver that you let go two years ago , he 's an old man of the track a little at , he has n't had a terribly successful time at Ferrari . |
| 20 | So I thought we could have a really good time as well , yeah ? ’ |
| 21 | In this book , I describe and explain these activities and although I can not claim that this is a comprehensive guide to parties — such a task would be virtually impossible ! — I do know that , if you follow my advice , your children and their friends will have a really enjoyable time ! |
| 22 | In fact , people did not have a very nice time working there , with dirty conditions , long hours , heat and underground work . |
| 23 | In a commando unit you will have a very active time . |
| 24 | He did have a very hard time which we , as children , could not understand … they took care of Richard as you know but my mother also had to look after the children left in 2 Dan-y-bont , Pontrhydyfen , travelling there at least twice a week on two separate buses with Richard , a two-year-old , in tow . |
| 25 | I think she would have a very hard time providing leadership , especially now that she is being perceived as more beholden to Washington than to the Filipino people . " |
| 26 | It is obvious that the breed clubs will have a very difficult time in the next decade . |
| 27 | If you have players who are obsessed with mapping detail , they will have a very tough time inside the Castle , but in describing the outside of it , when their characters seem to see slight differences each time they look at the buildings , add the disorientating detail that the characters can not remember exactly what the Castle looked like at any time prior to the present moment . |
| 28 | Na er well of course I 'm seve seventy nine but I can still remember most of it and I did have a very bad time ! |
| 29 | This would put applicants in a very false position , perhaps drive away very talented applicants who might think that there were fewer places available for them , but also to encourage people who might in fact be struggling to go to any university in the country , it might encourage them to apply and to have a reasonable expectation of success because their sporting abilities were outstanding , they would then be disappointed because they would not be admitted and if they were admitted at that level , they would probably have a very unfortunate time at Oxford . |
| 30 | Er I do n't know shorthand but I thought y somebody who did know shorthand would probably have a less hard time than I do writing down notes . |