Example sentences of "[vb past] been having [art] " 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 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 9 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 10 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 11 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 12 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 13 | Fifty Russian orphans who 'd been having the holiday of a lifetime in Britain have returned home … many of them in tears . |
| 14 | Fifty Russian orphans who 'd been having the holiday of a lifetime in Britain have returned home … many of them in tears . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 17 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 18 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 19 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 25 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 26 | Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’ |
| 27 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 28 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 29 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 30 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |