Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 2 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 3 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 4 | Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession . |
| 5 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 6 | Clare looked incredibly fit and had had a wonderful time . |
| 7 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 8 | ‘ She said she had had a wonderful time and liked the people of Merseyside , so I hope this unfortunate incident does n't remain in her mind . ’ |
| 9 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 10 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 11 | Strawberry had had a bad time . |
| 12 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 13 | Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener . |
| 14 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 15 | Sartori had disappeared a short time later . |
| 16 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 17 | My informant ( who wishes to be anonymous but nevertheless truthful ) had spent a short time in his early days as a signalman at OA & GB Junction Signal box . |
| 18 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 19 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 20 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |
| 21 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
| 22 | ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth . |
| 23 | They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what . |
| 24 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 25 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 26 | He had quite liked the thought of being fit and athletic some time in the future , although the signs had taken a long time coming . |
| 27 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 28 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 29 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 30 | Our visit had taken a long time and we returned to Skeldale House for lunch . |