Example sentences of "[verb] [be] having a " in BNC.
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1 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
2 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
3 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
4 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
5 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
6 | For the moment , however , they seem more relevant to Europe , which has been having a spot of bother with its own system of exchange-rate target zones . |
7 | MELVYN BRAGG has been having a busy year . |
8 | And Tim has been having a go of his sinus plus conjunctivitis and something else he describes as angst and is being generally unsupportive . |
9 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
10 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |
11 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
12 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
13 | One of the strengths Scotland has enjoyed is having a group of players who have become stronger than the individuals . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
16 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
17 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
18 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | It is highly likely that she was the same woman that Emma Southwick imagined was having a nip with Tiller in the back room during rehearsals way back in the St James 's Hall times . |
22 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
23 | It would just have been having a good time . |
24 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
25 | I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front . |
26 | As competent , adult readers we are sometimes aware that something we are reading is having a considerable effect upon us . |
27 | The road that they have created I think is having a damaging effect on the team and is making it more difficult for us to get the results . |
28 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
29 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
30 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |