Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] having [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I complained because I was having a great time with it , but I noticed that there were a few changes and when I went back to England from Mustique , that was probably the last time MainMan existed . |
| 2 | But Chester , who had their manager Harry McNally sent from the dugout in the first half for protesting about a high tackle by Smith on midfielder Gary Bennett ‘ I was having a private conversation in the dugout with one of my staff when the linesman interrupted ’ he said later started creating chances . |
| 3 | That 's where you met Colin and told him I was having a new car . |
| 4 | Not the most exciting of prospects maybe but even so , I was having a good time . |
| 5 | A lot of things were happening , sometimes I was having a good time , sometimes it was ghastly , and I used to get totally paranoid smoking dope . |
| 6 | I was having a nervous breakdown and I had to decide whether I was going to spend the rest of my life hiding under a bed , or whether I was going to do what I wanted to do . ’ |
| 7 | I was the best-known face in East Anglia , but I was having a terrible time . |
| 8 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 9 | ‘ I was having a bad week then , ’ Sloothaak said . |
| 10 | She said I was having a lovely time looking all round these things ! |
| 11 | And she bought things with her erm twenty five pound voucher said I was having a lovely time and I forgot the time ! |
| 12 | I was having a saline transfusion day and night , and unfortunately my blood kept clotting , which necessitated making fresh holes in my arm and legs . |
| 13 | Your birthday tea ready but you were having a better time somewhere else ! |
| 14 | You know , especially when perhaps you were having a mixed sort of meeting |
| 15 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 16 | ‘ You did n't know that while you were having a good Christmas , Hester was making arrangements to send him away ? ’ |
| 17 | Harvey said , ‘ You were having a nice chat about Turgenev . |
| 18 | That is left for members of the host community to do , as it busies itself ghettoizing the minority ; and as it ghettoizes it mumbles , and if you listen carefully you can just discern beneath the self-righteousness , the self-congratulation , the following : ‘ Okay , okay , so you were having a hard time in your own country . |
| 19 | You were having a bad dream . |
| 20 | gesture in front of a group exactly as if you were having an animated conversation with a friend nothing more , nothing less . |
| 21 | So now she was having a splendid time visiting friends , and who could blame her ? |
| 22 | She was having a great time . |
| 23 | ‘ I was glad that at last she was having a good time , that she was happy , ’ she said in an interview with Vox magazine . |
| 24 | Her limbs felt disconcertingly light , and she was having the greatest difficulty wiping the smile from her face as Luke placed a cushion behind her shoulders . |
| 25 | A bad case of Millerus Liteis , as doctors would say : she was having the ever-present pitcher of beer surgically removed from her hand . |
| 26 | Davies , Strudwick and Johnson persuaded Nicholas to hand in her resignation because they could see that she was having an impossible time of it . |
| 27 | It has even refused to injunct a magazine which had published an allegation it could not justify , where it might succeed at trial for other reasons : Soraya Kashoggi sought an injunction to withdraw " Woman 's Own " from circulation when it published a statement that she was having an extra-marital affair with a Head of State . |
| 28 | As a matter of fact , we were having a private conversation in here . |
| 29 | We were having a great time and feeling very relaxed . |
| 30 | He said he hoped we were having a nice time and could we leave the keys with Mrs Stewart please . |