Example sentences of "have a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poem is too long to quote in its entirety here , but the opening lines should provide a suitable contrast with " The retreate " : Here , a particular incident in the past is being recalled ; so the bulk of the poem has a content time which is separate from the coding time . |
| 2 | Jean Francois Poitevin , who finished third last year and has a best time of 1:32:22 , has pulled out in protest . |
| 3 | It has a geography , often in three dimensions , and it has a fast-moving time dimension . |
| 4 | A young Paul Gascoigne has a torrid time of it at the hands of the opposition in a league football match back in 1989 . |
| 5 | ‘ The important thing is that everyone has a blinding time , ’ says Dermot with the quiet confidence of a promoter who never promises attractions he ca n't deliver . |
| 6 | Most parents graduate to giving one warning after the initial command so that the child has a little time in which to respond but parents need to be very careful that they do n't lapse into nagging to get the child to comply again . |
| 7 | With Serafin back in Oxford and Mrs Padmore hard at work on the tapes he has a little time on his hands . |
| 8 | A small generator can be used primarily to stop a battery discharging and it will only be able to recharge a battery if it is small and has a long time in which to do it . |
| 9 | Not only for myself as it 's been a particular project close to me for many years , but for the break up of a team , a team that has a long time to build up and a team that worked very well together and who were very committed . |
| 10 | They get top coaching and everyone has a great time . ’ |
| 11 | b. goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman + then he starts dancing with a beautiful girl long black hair + has a good time + |
| 12 | So he has a drink , talks to the barman , starts dancing and has a good time all at the ‘ club ’ . |
| 13 | Alison says parties and dinner parties can be the last places she has a good time . |
| 14 | If , however , a bond only has a short time left to maturity , it will be much more liquid : its market price will be near its face value . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , apparently she only has a short time to live ; David came back to be with her — he 's even living at Brooklands . ’ |
| 16 | The London Implementation Group has a full time press officer working alongside colleagues in the Thames regions . |
| 17 | Duchess is a fair way off — and her sporty husband has a swinging time |
| 18 | Do n't let's just say drugs are bad , because for every one that has a bad time , and some people have a terrible time , you say some people die , I accept that . |
| 19 | Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company . |
| 20 | She has a miserable time , leaving home for a job in a club , escaping from reform school to hang out with drunken hoodlums and joining up with some soldiers for a bout of petty thieving that culminates in murder , and the film never allows one into the girl 's experience . |
| 21 | The latter film has a playing time of twenty minutes . |
| 22 | Mister Anderson has a tough time ahead of him . |
| 23 | Job B has an estimated time of 3 units , so the early finish of B is 4 + 3 = 7 . |
| 24 | Job B has an estimated time of 3 units , so the early finish of B is 4 + 3 = 7 . |
| 25 | A bird kept in captivity is fed all year round , so obviously it has an easier time than one in the wild which has to feed itself whatever the season , but it still has the hunting instinct . |
| 26 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 27 | Hodge , who joined Leeds from Nottingham Forest in a £900,000 deal , has had a frustrating time this season . |
| 28 | We 've had a cu We 've had a first time they 've erm quote at two thousand one hundred and seventy six pounds . |
| 29 | Have you had a nice time this morning ? |
| 30 | Erm but she 's had a nice time . |