Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj -er] time " in BNC.
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1 | He started up twenty years ago , he could not have picked a better time . |
2 | 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 ! " |
3 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
4 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
5 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
6 | SINEAD Donaghy could n't have chosen a better time to score her first goal of the season . |
7 | 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 . |