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

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1 Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time .
2 She 'd had a terrible time at the birth .
3 Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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