Example sentences of "[vb past] been having [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 Bill : I had been having sex , occasionally , with men since I was about fourteen but I had no gay social life at all .
6 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 .
7 Both had been having affairs and there had been several brief separations .
8 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 .
9 Owen knew his parents had been having aromatherapy massage , so I think it made him feel grown-up and important .
10 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 .
11 She had been having fits of anger , and had been neglecting her children , I was told .
12 ‘ He said he thought his mummy had been having car trouble because she had n't turned up .
13 They had been having dinner separately in the harem quarters , as they always did , the night that it happened .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement .
17 But Mr Frobisher , who had been having trouble with his male leads , assured us he was just what was needed .
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