Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 2 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 3 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 4 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 5 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 6 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 7 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 8 | Nicola had phoned a dozen times , without luck . |
| 9 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 10 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 11 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 12 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 13 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 14 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 15 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 16 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 17 | Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession . |
| 18 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 19 | Clare looked incredibly fit and had had a wonderful time . |
| 20 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 21 | ‘ She said she had had a wonderful time and liked the people of Merseyside , so I hope this unfortunate incident does n't remain in her mind . ’ |
| 22 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 23 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 24 | Strawberry had had a bad time . |
| 25 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 26 | Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener . |
| 27 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 28 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 29 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 30 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |