Example sentences of "been have a " in BNC.

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1 In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out .
2 Micro Focus has been had an object-oriented research programme under way since 1989 to explore what it really means to have re-usable code in practice .
3 She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair .
4 Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening .
5 She had been having a little innocent fun .
6 In recent months , I 've been having a lot of fun using a similar ‘ biological ’ approach to crack a certain type of code .
7 She 'd been having a nightmare .
8 I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today .
9 Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them .
10 The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late .
11 When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ?
12 She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 .
13 They have been having a moan and a groan recently .
14 I 've been having a look at a twenty-bed hotel up near Windermere .
15 It would just have been having a good time .
16 It appears he and his boss have been having a relationship for two years .
17 ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately .
18 It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan .
19 For the moment , however , they seem more relevant to Europe , which has been having a spot of bother with its own system of exchange-rate target zones .
20 Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it .
21 All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade .
22 Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject .
23 Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time .
24 MELVYN BRAGG has been having a busy year .
25 ‘ You 've been having a nightmare , that 's all , ’ said Florrie .
26 ‘ I been having a little think , ’ said Ron Paget .
27 And Tim has been having a go of his sinus plus conjunctivitis and something else he describes as angst and is being generally unsupportive .
28 At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit .
29 It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it .
30 Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered .
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