Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 5 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 6 | I had been having an affair with her husband . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been having a look at a twenty-bed hotel up near Windermere . |
| 8 | " I 've been having a look at the entire , " Bunny said . |
| 9 | In recent months , I 've been having a lot of fun using a similar ‘ biological ’ approach to crack a certain type of code . |
| 10 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 11 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been having a nightmare , that 's all , ’ said Florrie . |
| 13 | Good , good getting hard this is n't it when you 've been having a holiday and you thought you were gon na have a nice play and we 're doing all this hard work . |
| 14 | I reckon you 've been having the report daddy , then we can . . |
| 15 | It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true . |
| 16 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 17 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 18 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 19 | No she said she 's been to have a look at , it 's Glenys I do n't , no not Glenys |
| 20 | Well , she 's been having an affair with this bloke for the last year or so and then out of the blue he turned round and … |
| 21 | She 's been having an affair with Theo Sykes , and it turns out they were in Paris together at the time Puddephat was murdered . |
| 22 | Now she 's been having an argument with the council and while she 's been arguing , you know she 's got a grievance , while she 's been arguing she takes her anger out on them and tells them what she thinks of them . |
| 23 | She said bef , you know , she said before oh yeah , you know , when we 've been having a joke she said oh God I could do with a break from work she said , oh yeah ! |
| 24 | Aye , we we 've been having a lot of trouble with the people next door , and er |
| 25 | I hope your new proposals will work towards better rail-cycle facilities , as we have been having a lot of problems with Scotrail about the carriage of bikes . |
| 26 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 27 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 28 | Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’ |
| 29 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 30 | They have been having a moan and a groan recently . |