Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a [adj -er] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
| 2 | He started up twenty years ago , he could not have picked a better time . |
| 3 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 4 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 5 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 6 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 7 | SINEAD Donaghy could n't have chosen a better time to score her first goal of the season . |
| 8 | We had a beautiful Spring holiday on the Beauly Firth , and could not have chosen a better time to be there , with all the different kinds of foliage on the hillsides , and the spring flowers on the banks . |
| 9 | In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it . |