Example sentences of "you [be] having a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The average glass of wine contains between 90–100 calories , and it is difficult to stop at one when you are having a good meal .
2 Calcium If you are having a reasonable amount of dairy produce you are not likely to be short of calcium .
3 The trick is to try and look beyond them to the interviewer and talk as though the two of you are having a personal conversation .
4 It might be that you are having a hectic day at work and you feel that things are getting to you , or you might be stuck in a traffic jam with your pulse racing and the frustration making you angry .
5 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 .
6 You 're having a great time .
7 Obviously if you 're having a long-term relationship and you know she 's not shagging anybody else and she 's not on the and she is on the pill .
8 ‘ Enduring ’ means nothing if you 're having a rotten time now , so you guys love Shakespeare and in the meantime I ca n't get a good hot cup of coffee in this country .
9 ‘ Not too far when you 're having a good time .
10 In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too .
11 It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time .
12 You 're having a marvellous time out there .
13 In this country anyway at least , in the U K and you 're having a new dream cottage built , okay , to your needs and satisfaction , okay ?
14 Probably if you 're having a new home built or something like that you may not have to recourse to those because while you 're having , you 're having your home built you can say to the electrician , alright I want X number of power points here .
15 The other thing is ladies and gentlemen , I do n't know whether you know or not , but it is now , if you 're having a new home built , fresh build as we call it , okay ?
16 When you when you 're reading this through , you 're having a quick skim through , you can can you can cross out , you can sort of totally obliterate
17 You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that .
18 you 're having a bad time , use them .
19 It 's a funny thing though , because mother 's and daughter 's , and er , I love , when my mum comes up she 's a dreadful sleeper and if you 're having a bad time , you get up in the middle of the night to go and make a cup of tea , there 's always a little voice says , yes , let's have a cup of tea dear .
20 So do n't lie , if you 're having a bad month , or you 're having a bad week or you have n't had any sales , put it in the computer , because that 's going to be identified , it comes up on here , so that your manager can help you .
21 So do n't lie , if you 're having a bad month , or you 're having a bad week or you have n't had any sales , put it in the computer , because that 's going to be identified , it comes up on here , so that your manager can help you .
22 So you 're having a quiet day tomorrow then ?
23 Your birthday tea ready but you were having a better time somewhere else !
24 You know , especially when perhaps you were having a mixed sort of meeting
25 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
26 ‘ You did n't know that while you were having a good Christmas , Hester was making arrangements to send him away ? ’
27 Harvey said , ‘ You were having a nice chat about Turgenev .
28 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 .
29 You were having a bad dream .
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