Example sentences of "[vb -s] [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 No she said she 's been to have a look at , it 's Glenys I do n't , no not Glenys
15 Your husband 's been having a busy week . ’
16 Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are .
17 Prestbury Park 's been having a heat wave … gallons upon gallons of water are being pumped onto the course to make the going good …
18 I goes ah Shrimpy 's been having a massive go at Pete he 's threatened to punch his face in and all this business !
19 He 's been having a go at Pete .
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