Example sentences of "she [vb past] a [adj] time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I went back to Batty Langley , who considered the gardens she designed a thousand times better than Versailles . |
| 2 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 3 | She was also hungry , very hungry , she acknowledged a short time later as she did justice to the duckling and fresh vegetables Roman had ordered . |
| 4 | She never for a moment thought of deserting French for Mrs Hill , having encountered amongst other things some nasty problems about the nature of electricity , but she did enjoy the sensation of flirtation : she spent a long time making her mind up , and finally was summoned by the headmistress , who told her she ought to stick to Sciences , because they offered better prospects . |
| 5 | The shower was wonderfully soothing and afterwards she spent a long time drying her hair and putting on her make-up . |
| 6 | She spent a long time in the bathroom . |
| 7 | She spent a long time near the gate these days , but the snow had driven her indoors at last . |
| 8 | First , she recorded a personal time of 7.80 seconds when finishing second in the 60 metres at the Scottish National Championships . |
| 9 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 10 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 11 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 12 | When she first joined the company , packing vitamins and herbal medicines three years ago , she took a little time to get used to the work . |
| 13 | ‘ She died a long time ago . |
| 14 | She waited a long time ; so long , she must have fallen asleep , for the next thing she knew the room was in darkness , and Connor was in bed beside her . |
| 15 | She waited a long time in a small office , but after an hour a policeman came into the room . |
| 16 | But I think she had a good time . |
| 17 | The prize for the winner , was to share her next dinner , and ensure that she had a good time . |
| 18 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
| 19 | ‘ She had a splendid time visiting the Radio Show and sitting in the Mayor 's parlour . |
| 20 | Er but then she worked went to work in a munitions factory in Kilburn and she had a marvellous time . |
| 21 | But er according to my mother 's great joy , she got seasick even on the landing stage in in Liverpool and never came out of her cabin , so she had a big time as a young women running around the ship . |
| 22 | The Princess , dressed simply in a white blouse and dark skirt , was draped with crimson flower garlands as she flew over Mount Everest in a helicopter , 40 years after a British-sponsored expedition became the first to reach the summit of the world 's highest mountain.As she flew past the snowy peak a relative of a Nepalese climber who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Everest in 1953 was leading a seven-member Australian team up the mountain.Although the Princess did not see any climbers she told fellow passengers aboard her Super Puma helicopter that she had a wonderful time seeing the mountain through clear skies . |
| 23 | She had a wonderful time . ’ |
| 24 | And then across the road she went afterwards , to that there , She had a lovely time there . |
| 25 | And she said she had a lovely time . |
| 26 | Hepzibah says when they lived in Norfolk she had an awful time looking after him because he was always in fights and he was young then , too young to hurt anyone much . |
| 27 | She sat a long time by herself , looking at the forsythia . |
| 28 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |