Example sentences of "[vb past] be have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why I think people got in debt because they 'd been having things that they could n't afford , I mean er , at one time you was never encouraged to ha er have things , now I mean the minute they see you 're getting low on your , oh have something else , have something else |
| 2 | Derek said they 'd been having sex ! |
| 3 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 4 | Erm , I had n't actually felt that violent , I 'd been having extremes of emotion all week erm , very high , very low , very very fearful , panic attacks which I 'd never had before in my life . |
| 5 | One of the last things Angela did was to have lunch with an old schoolfriend in the DTI who is responsible for the Huerter case , to make sure the DTI understood the impact of such assistance on Barton 's operations . ’ |
| 6 | foot which had had been had gout induced . |
| 7 | Bill : I had been having sex , occasionally , with men since I was about fourteen but I had no gay social life at all . |
| 8 | In a statement read to the inquest , she told how her husband of 11 years had been having difficulty sleeping , but had never talked of suicide . |
| 9 | Both had been having affairs and there had been several brief separations . |
| 10 | These sudden developments in a period of five weeks when Pons and Jones had been having discussions , culminating in the above public claim that could have influenced patent priorities , fuelled the suspicion in the University of Utah camp that they had been upstaged . |
| 11 | Owen knew his parents had been having aromatherapy massage , so I think it made him feel grown-up and important . |
| 12 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 13 | She had been having fits of anger , and had been neglecting her children , I was told . |
| 14 | ‘ He said he thought his mummy had been having car trouble because she had n't turned up . |
| 15 | They had been having dinner separately in the harem quarters , as they always did , the night that it happened . |
| 16 | Lucy arrived , drained and tight-lippéd , Jeremy had been having trouble with his girlfriend , and Lucy had provided the two a.m. shoulder all week . |
| 17 | Also , Anthony Tory , regular jockey for Docklands Express , had been having trouble with his shoulder for a while , and Mark Perrett , another of the horse 's regular riders , had been claimed for Rubika . |
| 18 | I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement . |
| 19 | But Mr Frobisher , who had been having trouble with his male leads , assured us he was just what was needed . |
| 20 | The Duchess 's answer to the eagerness of so many to attend her ball had been to have tickets of admission printed , yet , even so , Bristow expected there to be at least as many interlopers as ticket holders . |
| 21 | How lucky they had been to have grandparents living at Thrush Green , thought Joan , looking back to those happy days with affection . |
| 22 | ‘ One of the things I missed was having access to things like phones and being able to make contacts . ’ |