Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does n't use the top one it 's jammed with paint and I loosened the saddle on the other when I was pretending to have a piss . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I was hoping to have a word with you about this week 's Greek tutorial . ’ |
| 3 | Well that 's I was intending to have a word with Tom about it . |
| 4 | As a matter of fact , I was going to have a chat with Angy , you see , at this week 's art class , but of course … |
| 5 | so , and er I said do you sell butterfly ones , and she said I was going to have a go at making them , but she said I ca n't make them like you , |
| 6 | I exclaimed my heart beating so wildly I thought I was going to have a heart attack right there at the table . |
| 7 | The client may say , ‘ My heart was beating so fast I thought I was going to have a heart attack ’ , or , ‘ I ca n't cope any more ’ , or , ‘ I think I 'm going to end up in a mental hospital ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I was going to have a coffee at the Greek cake shop , ’ Constance went on , ‘ but just as I was going in one of those middle-class , middle-aged ladies with a smile on her face was coming out , and whenever I see one of them I think she 's going to try and sell me a poppy or something or tell me Jesus loves me . |
| 9 | You 'll laugh , but I was going to have a coronation . |
| 10 | D R DOS , er sorry M S DOS Five did , I thought I was going to have a lot of trouble , and it did n't . |
| 11 | ‘ I was going to have a smoke , ’ Hope lied . |
| 12 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 13 | ‘ I was going to have a baby but I 'm not any more , so that 's all right , is n't it ? |
| 14 | I was trembling a little , more anxious than if I was going to have a tooth out . |
| 15 | I was going to have a tooth out today ! |
| 16 | I was coming to have a yarn with Mrs Garfitt . |
| 17 | I was planning to have a pub meal . |
| 18 | That 's cos you were going to have a look |
| 19 | For a moment she thought she was going to have a battle on her hands , then he relaxed , holding up his palms in a gesture of peace . |
| 20 | If she was going to have a child , ever … no , no ; real responsible revolutionaries should not have children . |
| 21 | She was going to have a baby . |
| 22 | And when she said she was going to have a baby , rather a surprise at the new year time . |
| 23 | Then later on she found she was going to have a baby . |
| 24 | We paid rent to be there and er and of course either Hugh or me or both of us came up to see my mother every day , you see , unless we knew she was going to have a visitor and then we used to take a day off |
| 25 | She blew her nose and announced that she was going to have a bath . |
| 26 | But erm , funnily enough I I I was out erm , on Saturday evening , and by a strange coincidence , er , where we were sitting having a meal , erm , in the restaurant , erm , someone came in and joined us , we saw , some friends of ours , and he is a sociologist from the University . |
| 27 | But then , he could have had no idea that we were going to have a look at the Delos . |
| 28 | And then we were going to have a day shopping in Ken . |
| 29 | If we said , like , if we , every second month say or every third month , then we , we knew we were going to have a speaker , we could the time before we could then do the business more thoroughly and carefully so that the month of the speaker we could just go through it very quickly . |
| 30 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |