Example sentences of "[vb past] be having a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
| 3 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 11 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 12 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 13 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 14 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 15 | It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 17 | As Maisie and Mr Malik 's relative were clearing away the destruction ( the Huysan twins had been having a mashed-potato fight with school spoons ) , he made his way up to the headmaster 's study . |
| 18 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 19 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |