Example sentences of "'d have a [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 She 'd had a terrible time at the birth .
2 ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything .
3 Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time .
4 They 'd had a good time .
5 They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too .
6 She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive .
7 On and on she heard herself ranting ( could it be that she heard echoes of her own past self , the speaking , ranting , resurrected ghost of that ephemeral figure Liz Lintot ? ) and heard his vague , evasive grunts and answers : yes , he said , he and Henrietta would marry as soon as possible , Henrietta wanted to go to New York with him , she 'd had a thin time herself lately , he needed her in New York , Henrietta had n't been well , needed to settle … and as Liz spoke and listened she was aware of a simultaneous conviction that this was the most shocking , the most painful hour of her entire life , and also that it was profoundly dull , profoundly trivial , profoundly irrelevant , a mere routine , devoid of truth , devoid of meaning : nothing .
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