Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe we should take a little time out … just the two of us … |
| 2 | A recollection of John Davies , the minister for Europe in Heath 's cabinet , indicated the mood , ‘ We were at home in Cheshire , and I said to my wife and children that we should have a nice time , because I deeply believed then that it was the last Christmas of its kind that we would enjoy . ’ , |
| 3 | ‘ The Ukrainians do n't really know much about Britain , but I 'm going to serve champagne and two kinds of caviar so I expect we 'll have a good time , ’ Gladstone told me over a crackling telephone line shortly before the party began . |
| 4 | Me brother and the two bairns are coming the morrow and we 'll have a good time . |
| 5 | I think we 'll have a tough time for two or three years , but we 'll stick with it because it 's a good business and it 's our kind of business . |
| 6 | ‘ We might wait a long time ! ’ he said . |
| 7 | But I think we might have a little time to ourselves now , and be d — d to anyone who says we have n't both earned it ! |
| 8 | We 'd have a good time . " |
| 9 | Again I 've tried to tell her but he said , Geoff said we shall have a lovely time , we sha n't go short I said I know that ! |
| 10 | Now question is whether or not there is a simple ability to realise a capital receipt and use it I think , and if that were true , if what you 're saying is true and there was some net gain to be made very easily then I think we would have a hard time , perhaps , refusing what you 're saying . |
| 11 | ‘ I am determined we will have a good time . |
| 12 | Erm I do n't think we can spend a long time considering them , it 's just if people bear me whisking through them our brains . |