Example sentences of "was [v-ing] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was wondering a long time . |
| 2 | Not that I complained because I was having a great time with it , but I noticed that there were a few changes and when I went back to England from Mustique , that was probably the last time MainMan existed . |
| 3 | She was having a great time . |
| 4 | Gedanken was having a great time . |
| 5 | and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus |
| 6 | Not the most exciting of prospects maybe but even so , I was having a good time . |
| 7 | Bohemian rhapsody Everybody was having a good time on the Left Bank after the war , but the art was surprisingly thin , argues Tim Hilton . |
| 8 | ‘ I was glad that at last she was having a good time , that she was happy , ’ she said in an interview with Vox magazine . |
| 9 | A lot of things were happening , sometimes I was having a good time , sometimes it was ghastly , and I used to get totally paranoid smoking dope . |
| 10 | Everyone was having a good time . |
| 11 | In Ipswich , the Amberstone Bookshop was having a better time of it after a steady year , supported by some strong local titles . |
| 12 | So now she was having a splendid time visiting friends , and who could blame her ? |
| 13 | Salim states that he was having a rough time , and was tired and suspicious of Yvette : he does not say that a tribal god commanded him to leave her . |
| 14 | Karen was looking after Ann McDonald from Scotland who was having a terrific time despite suffering from spina bifida and hydroencephalus ( water on the brain ) . |
| 15 | I was the best-known face in East Anglia , but I was having a terrible time . |
| 16 | Paul was having a tough time himself supervising the contouring of the land around the three-tier pool Stephen had eventually commissioned . |
| 17 | ‘ Farming in general was having a tough time , the prices of most traditional agricultural commodities were declining in real terms , farms were having to become much larger to remain economically viable and most commentators felt things were not going to get much better in the short term indeed most said they were going to get worse . ’ |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the Bodegraven was having a hard time trying to dear Dutch waters . |
| 19 | Hemmings took a catch to dismiss Logie , who was beginning to look dangerous , and then the wickets slithered away — including Harper run out by a fine throw from Hemmings , who was having a wonderful time . |
| 20 | He was having a wonderful time and so was Edith . |
| 21 | He was having a wonderful time , and had at least , she noticed , retained enough good sense to make sure that his losses at the table were minimal . |
| 22 | ‘ I heard it was having a difficult time . ’ |
| 23 | Richard was having a lean time . |
| 24 | The following morning I got Dad 's step-ladder out , put some of his flowerpots from the greenhouse on the steps and was having a lovely time with my own version of ‘ Breaking up the Happy Home ’ when the sound of pots smashing brought my carnival to an end . |
| 25 | She said I was having a lovely time looking all round these things ! |
| 26 | And she bought things with her erm twenty five pound voucher said I was having a lovely time and I forgot the time ! |
| 27 | What a man like Siward would do , who was hiding a second time in a forest and had blown the withdrawal within minutes of the Normans ' arrival . |
| 28 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 29 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 30 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |