Example sentences of "had a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mass , the most accomplished veteran of Sportscar racing , was just passing the pits entrance when the slight drizzle turned into a downpour : he had a torrid time out there on Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez , spending almost 3 minutes slithering around to the pits . |
| 2 | The three Corporals had a dull time in Lille and would often invite prostitutes in from the town to cheer up their afternoons . |
| 3 | Ask you if you had a nice time ? ’ |
| 4 | Watched the box but we had , I do n't think there was anything decent on but yeah had a nice christmas lunch , Tash and John came and nice , had a nice time . |
| 5 | The money will go towards an extension and towards kitchen equipment in the extension , we had a nice time there , and there was a great deal of gratitude to the G M B. |
| 6 | And we went , we had a nice time . |
| 7 | But it was quite nice , we had a nice time . |
| 8 | ‘ If you must know , I had a rotten time last night , ’ she said sulkily . |
| 9 | He wanted to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he had a long time ago , but she said it made her feel middle-aged and dull and ordinary , so he must never say it again , especially when other people were around . |
| 10 | A new song , ‘ Pussy Cat Meow ’ , celebrates them and a dream Kier had a long time ago . |
| 11 | Some of them you remember the table we had a long time ago showing the reactivity of different elements , particularly the metals when we were looking at metals . |
| 12 | And erm you know I know that was one difficulty , that people had a long time to wait for repairs . |
| 13 | You know , we had a long time really just to kind of toss out . |
| 14 | I had a terrible time last Friday — your paper sent me proofs to correct the same day so I had to struggle up with them . |
| 15 | One of those days was last Friday , when I had a terrible time going to lunch with Herman to meet Ivy . |
| 16 | We had a terrible time administering the company , which we had bought very cheaply and which was in disarray . |
| 17 | We had a terrible time when my husband was made redundant five years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not sure if it was ‘ The Reign of Terror ’ story about the French Revolution , or one of the other ones , but we had a terrible time getting Bill to pronounce the word brazier , meaning a rack for burning coals . |
| 19 | Robert had a terrible time painting it . |
| 20 | And then he gave orders to Punch for tea to be prepared and they had a terrible time finding any china that was n't cracked or broken and then she went on working in the pantry as quiet as a mouse and she could hear you both talking as clear as clear . |
| 21 | I know you had a terrible time and the last thing I meant to do was to upset you . |
| 22 | If he turns up for court and he says , yes I had a terrible time at the police station and there were all sorts of breaches of but I am now here on a , I 'm gon na tell the truth , that 's no problem . |
| 23 | Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time . |
| 24 | We had a brilliant time and it 's a pity you only get to do it once : Maybe we 'll split up and reform under a different name — so we can have a crack at it next year . |
| 25 | ‘ He had a fantastic time . |
| 26 | In a typically wild , rollicking rugby evening , with mayhem breaking out everywhere , the local lads had a marvellous time with the Cup , knocked out that they could actually touch the code 's most holy object . |
| 27 | To end on a happier note , I had a marvellous time in the robot business . |
| 28 | They visited the same city , perhaps the same places , and spent the same amount of money — but Joy had a marvellous time , while Gloom was thoroughly miserable from start to finish . |
| 29 | Er but then she worked went to work in a munitions factory in Kilburn and she had a marvellous time . |
| 30 | Dunbar took Madeleine and they had a marvellous time , or so Aubrey said . ’ |