Example sentences of "had have a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Clare looked incredibly fit and had had a wonderful time . |
| 6 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 10 | Strawberry had had a bad time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener . |
| 13 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |