Example sentences of "[verb] [been] have 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 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
| 17 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 23 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 24 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 28 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 29 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 30 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |