Example sentences of "having [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ai n't bloody having that every time you two buggers get together mind , ’ he said , and went back through the bar flap . |
| 2 | D' you think there 's anything further in me considering my ideas of them having half an hour not working session a week ? |
| 3 | How about me having half an hour with you my friend , and tell me how you do it . |
| 4 | And I come home and I says to him , I 'm not having this no more . |
| 5 | Van Doren 's excuse to the investigating congressional committee was the most interesting part of the unedifying episode : ‘ I was almost able to convince myself that it did not matter what I was doing because it was having such a good effect on the national attitude to teachers , education and the intellectual life . ’ |
| 6 | I sensed that the people of Donegal felt faintly disappointed at having such a rational church service . |
| 7 | The ‘ Crossroads ’ experiment presented a mentally handicapped child within the dimensions of a programme which purports to be about real people and real life , and to explore some of the issues raised in having such a child . |
| 8 | It is just that there are so many of them concerned with skin colour , each one having such a small effect , that they seem to blend . |
| 9 | Yet again , is the price of having such a distinction doctors who are afraid to act and patients condemned to a lingering death ? |
| 10 | Seventy-four per cent ( 123 ) of the dementia sufferers were identified as having such a principal carer ( 81 per cent in Ipswich , and 67 per cent in Newham ) . |
| 11 | I rather like the Nimbus set , despite the generous acoustics and the occasional technical frailty , as not only has one the inestimable benefit of hearing the music shaped , balanced , and paced in a way that at least approximates the sort of thing Schubert originally had in mind , but they all sound as though they 're having such a jolly good time ( one palls at the though of all those ghastly , poe-faced Schubert records which litter the catalogue ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought she was having such a wonderful time . ’ |
| 13 | Not having such a fine time at gigs recently were CARTER USM , whose own live experience at The Riverside venue in Newcastle proved painful when JIMBOB skidded on a banana skin some thoughtful fan had thrown onto the stage , and fell straight on his ass . |
| 14 | And he even questioned the wisdom of having such a thing as a World Cup . |
| 15 | ‘ With having such a long time off , I 've lost a lot of speed but the endurance is still there , which of course is the key for anyone on the ultra scene . |
| 16 | The inherent and deeply charged contradictions of a culturally threadbare working-class politics having such a richly threaded , but essentially unpolitical base , is right at the heart of the problems facing strategists of class liberation ’ |
| 17 | I told her we were Baptists and she said she would tell her husband because he thought Gran was an amazing woman having such a large family , but she had told him that we probably belonged to ‘ one of these odd religions ! ’ . |
| 18 | From an argument based on such negative evidence it may be that as a hunting weapon they were more common than the record suggests , having such a high use-value that they were not disposed of at burial ; if accepted this would also say something of the use-value of weaponry . |
| 19 | THE party 's over , it 's time to call it a day — but Catherine Zeta Jones was having such a perfick time she just did n't notice . |
| 20 | An organiser said : ‘ She was having such a great time she did n't want to go . |
| 21 | ‘ No wonder Souness is having such a difficult time . |
| 22 | Just imagine being a kid and having such a legal background . |
| 23 | It may make the statement : ‘ I have survived despite having such a cumbersome tail so mate with me and your offspring will be as successful as me . ’ |
| 24 | The only person who came to mind was the Substitute , but years of battling with arrogant , ambitious magistrates had taken their toll and he smiled ruefully at himself for having such a peculiar idea . |
| 25 | Siemens AG has been having such a tough time in the former Soviet Union with its nuclear safety and telecommunications projects that it has been cutting back and recalling expatriates early ( CI No 2,043 ) , but Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG does have some work . |
| 26 | This example suggests that having such a membership should not be a pre-requisite of representativeness , but it may be a relevant factor to take into account . |
| 27 | David Gockley is eminently deserving of having such a fuss made over him . |
| 28 | But in a sense , too , she knew that Louise was not wrong to worry about Harry committing such a blunder , for Harry , moving in the social circles in which he would move , if he survived the siege , to the day of his death , would almost certainly suffer the inconveniences of having such a wife , would regret his marriage , and perhaps in due course would come to believe that his life had been ruined . |
| 29 | ‘ Madder than ever , ’ she recalled Adam saying , and she turned her head away roughly , bitter at having such a madman for a father . |
| 30 | When he heard this , Oliver felt rather doubtful about having such a friend . |