Example sentences of "been [v-ing] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 2 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 3 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 4 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 5 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 6 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 7 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 8 | I 've been waiting a long time , watching the roads , asking about new arrivals in the large towns . |
| 9 | ‘ Well ? ’ she says as though she 's been waiting a long time . |
| 10 | we have been waiting a long time traffic calming . |
| 11 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |
| 12 | According to Computerworld , Softlab recently offered $350m for the company — which has been experiencing a rough time of late , reporting mid-term losses of $3.5m back in January . |
| 13 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 14 | Says 24-year-old Alex : ‘ We have been having a great time in Blackpool and are all so excited about coming to Liverpool . |
| 15 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 16 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 17 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 18 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 19 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 20 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
| 21 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 22 | ‘ Been having an interesting time ? ’ |