Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A right raucous time was had by all … and the session ended in a sea of holly-sprigged wrappings and crumpled paper hats . |
| 2 | I 'd waited a bloody long time to be with you again , and there I was , behaving like a blasted prima donna and wasting my chances . |
| 3 | But , even if he could write the thing quickly , all the subsequent processes took such a bloody long time . |
| 4 | a bloody long time . |
| 5 | dis I mean , it 's a bloody long time that train in n it ? |
| 6 | I like being in a war and I like being there because it 's a great adventure for me , but my duty is to be there for a reason , not just to have a bloody good time … |
| 7 | A bloody good time . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's precisely why I asked you to come here at such a bloody ridiculous time . |
| 9 | Well , he did n't get a bloody next time . |
| 10 | It is also possible to study for these examinations by taking a one-year full time course at The City or Heriot Watt Universities . |
| 11 | Low-pressure pubs for a high old time Daedalus . |
| 12 | I also recall that some cricket grounds displayed notices curtly stressing : ‘ No Autographs ’ and over-zealous groundstaff and sometimes local police had a high old time trying to keep the hunters away from the hunted . |
| 13 | FT-SE has a high old time |
| 14 | CORONATION STREET star Bill Roache has a high old time with two big fans . |
| 15 | It occurs in Henry IV , Part I. Falstaff and the Prince are having a high old time by pretending in turn to be the King chastising Hal for his association with Falstaff . |
| 16 | Apart from the fact that there was trouble with one of the other directors — apparently Jefferson was having a high old time with his wife and , to add insult to injury , charging the hotel rooms to expenses — you may recall that Downton lost two very valuable contracts with players in tennis and golf . |
| 17 | Dear me , a high old time of it we all had when Cormac was at Tara . |
| 18 | As for the rest , they were on their chairs whooping and dancing and having a high old time , which is what , I think , was intended . |
| 19 | If the blasting of Bristol City is anything to go by the United fans are in for a high old time … a dazzling display from Chris Allen … two penalties from Jimmy Magilton … and first for Alex Dyer was just the sort of start that manager 's dream about … |
| 20 | If the blasting of Bristol City is anything to go by the United fans are in for a high old time … a dazzling display from Chris Allen … two penalties from Jimmy Magilton … and first for Alex Dyer was just the sort of start that manager 's dream about … |
| 21 | Far from spending long hours on the tiles hunting , scavenging and generally having a high old time with their pals , as tradition and practice dictate , they should be indoors tucked up . |
| 22 | a smashing good time like estate agents and Neighbours , |
| 23 | From this he argued that , since only the present ‘ is ’ , it follows that past and future are alike meaningless , the only time is a continual present time and what exists is both uncreated and imperishable . |
| 24 | It often happens , especially if you train only spasmodically , that you start off the season with a personal best time , get really excited because you think there is a lot more to come and then the rest of the summer turns out to be something of a damp squib . |
| 25 | Jane Archer 2.32 ; Colin Richer 2.34 ; Paul Frindle 2.35 ; Terry Rivers 2.39 ; Steve Wade 2.56 ; Maurice Young 2.56. completed the Portsmouth British Wheelchair half-marathon in a personal best time of 1.25.41 as his training intensifies for the London Marathon . |
| 26 | Sunderland Harrier David Clark , trained by Stan Long , is entered for the youths 3,000 metres and he will be trying for a personal best time after improving his marks when winning the North-East 800 and 1500 metres titles . |
| 27 | Right every time you 've got a floppy black time thing with a tail |
| 28 | Their Italian holiday had been different , a tiny golden time , snatched out of nowhere and more than either of them deserved . |
| 29 | Scaling : the relaxation ( time-correlation ) functions ( which characterise a material 's response to changes in an applied mechanical or electromagnetic field ) , measured at different temperatures , may be made to coincide on a single ‘ master ’ curve by scaling the time axis with a temperature-dependent characteristic time . |
| 30 | Sitting in the foyer of their Salzburg hotel — between ‘ shoots ’ , obviously — Paul , guitarist brother Niall and drumming hair bear Ashley Keating are gulping down mineral water , babbling on about the ‘ fierce ’ sights of Austria and generally behaving like men who are having a blinking good time , thank record companies very much . |