Example sentences of "[verb] [be] having [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 2 | Mr Brown has been having increasing pain and a " dragging " sensation in his right groin . |
| 3 | I have been asked to reply My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been having important discussions today with President Yeltsin , who is on his first visit abroad as President of an independent Russia . |
| 4 | The humans must have been having similar thoughts , if humans had thoughts . |
| 5 | Rachel crawled into the confined space beside him , and with a little jolt she saw it was Len Seager , the man who had been having alcohol-related problems . |
| 6 | A sixteen-year-old girl ( they 're always sixteen in this story ) who had been having regular sex with her boyfriend , began worrying that he might lose interest in her if he had to keep wearing a condom . |
| 7 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 8 | I 've been having wonderful luck ever since May 25th . |
| 9 | We have been having lovely weather , so we have been able to get out quite a lot . |
| 10 | A teenager who 's been having pioneering medical treatment to help him grow , is back on his feet … and learning karate . |