Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 2 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 3 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 4 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 5 | He started up twenty years ago , he could not have picked a better time . |
| 6 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 7 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 8 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
| 9 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 10 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 11 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 12 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 13 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
| 14 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
| 15 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |
| 16 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 18 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 19 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 20 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 21 | Anyone who survived with Lennie must have had a tough time . |
| 22 | He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son . |
| 23 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 24 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 25 | DUNDEE 'S Canadian chairman Ron Dixon will have had an uncomfortable time since Saturday despite the distance between his home in Vancouver and his football headquarters at Dens Park . |
| 26 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 27 | We arrived in Venice with time to spare before catching the train to Bologna , where we would have to change a third time for Parma . |
| 28 | She waited to see if McGee would make it back from the drawing room then , fearful lest he should have to ring a second time , she opened the door . |
| 29 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
| 30 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |