Example sentences of "be have a [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just reading here where it says that erm B and Q they 're having a slanging match with Texas cutting all their prices paints tools they 're trying to outdo them with the prices . |
| 2 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 3 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 6 | As Maisie and Mr Malik 's relative were clearing away the destruction ( the Huysan twins had been having a mashed-potato fight with school spoons ) , he made his way up to the headmaster 's study . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 8 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 9 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 10 | Unless you are absolutely sure that both you and your partner do not have HIV , and neither of you are having a sexual relationship with anyone else , the wisest thing is to avoid having unsafe sex . |
| 11 | ‘ On June 28 we are having an open day with various activities , a lot of displays and work by the junior section — WATCH . |
| 12 | Q I am having a real problem with nitrates , not only in my aquarium which is fish-only but in my tapwater as well . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm having a little trouble with it . ’ |
| 14 | gesture in front of a group exactly as if you were having an animated conversation with a friend nothing more , nothing less . |
| 15 | The pavements are slick with rain , the twisted array of neon lights turns the gutters to gold , the streets are black with people who do n't have any particular place to go , and outside a cheap bar a drunken woman is having a stand-up domestic with her low-life escort . |
| 16 | The unlikely stud causing all this hormonal activity is Palm Beach cop Jack Dobson — the distinctly unsexy James Belushi struggling in vain to be Michael Douglas — who is having a secret affair with rich , frustrated socialite Ellen Schofield , Lorraine Bracco dripping in diamonds . |
| 17 | What would be helpful perhaps is to have a close relationship with a mother-type figure who is not your mother . |
| 18 | The solution that Grayling finds the most feasible at present is to have a circular table with a hole in the middle . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus |
| 21 | Batty was having a serious confrontation with Alan Byrne in midfield Byrne won the first half . |
| 22 | Immediately — and this can be well understood — Coastal Command had more than a passing interest because it was having a desperate struggle with the U-boats in the Atlantic and , naturally , it was very keenly supported by the Admiralty and the Navy to boot , to get hold of this latest model . |
| 23 | Finally , according to the lawyer , it 's likely that he was having a covert affair with a woman . |
| 24 | Someone there was having a heated argument with an official , who then called the guard to deal with the matter . |
| 25 | Her husband was having a heated argument with a short fat woman about television as an inducement to juvenile delinquency . |
| 26 | Then , of course , he 'd send his friends similar notes — ca n't stay tonight , got terrible earache , or my mother 's not very well — because for something like a year or more , he was having a double affair with , — dare I mention her name — Natasha Kornilof , who was a great friend of mine . |
| 27 | The following morning I got Dad 's step-ladder out , put some of his flowerpots from the greenhouse on the steps and was having a lovely time with my own version of ‘ Breaking up the Happy Home ’ when the sound of pots smashing brought my carnival to an end . |
| 28 | She was too busy watching her godmother , who had reached her father 's side and was having an animated conversation with him , albeit a somewhat one-sided one . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew . |