Example sentences of "having a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he is suffering from a type of septicaemia , he is clearly having a good spell . |
| 2 | Salim states that he was having a rough time , and was tired and suspicious of Yvette : he does not say that a tribal god commanded him to leave her . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The first piece of advice that 's necessary is that you should n't just try to be fashionable by choosing juicy speeches that catch your eye without knowing the whole play and having a working idea of how to perform the speech . |
| 5 | He said , as this is a first offence you will not be sent down , instead , I fine you ten pounds for having a girl on the premises . |
| 6 | Perhaps doing Shakespeare spoils you for that , but I think having a text that is good is important . |
| 7 | After all , having a card is n't |
| 8 | What 's the point of having a phone if you never answer ? he said . |
| 9 | What 's the point of having a phone if you never answer it ? he asked me . |
| 10 | ‘ This must therefore be considered as having a detrimental effect overall on the tourism market . ’ |
| 11 | Ma and Father shake hands with everyone and look as if they are having a wonderful time . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing like having a doctor in the house . ’ |
| 13 | It started to rain so I went down to Apsley House at the bottom right-hand corner of the park with the intention of having a look at the paintings there . |
| 14 | Unbeknown to me , she made some enquiries , and then one Friday , while I was sitting in the coffee shop having a quiet read of a newspaper someone had left , she appeared by my side . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | According to my dictionary , a tree can be any perennial plant having a self-supporting woody main stem . |
| 17 | In fact , gardens that are long and narrow are among the more simple to design because they can be broken down very easily into separate garden areas or ‘ rooms ’ , each of them having a different function or theme . |
| 18 | Trestles make it all so much easier and safer , and it is worth while having a second one so that everyone can relax for a few minutes if it is proving difficult to align both wings to get the main pins in place . |
| 19 | It is important for every student to understand the philosophy behind having a rigid drill and the reasons for precise actions such as checking and locking the airbrakes . |
| 20 | If the angle is too steep , and you arrive too close , it will mean having a very short base leg and no time for adjustments by moving in or out and using the airbrakes . |
| 21 | In the past it was thought that the chance of having a glider struck by lightning in cloud was negligible . |
| 22 | If you are a person at greater risk from flu , consider having a flu vaccine this autumn . |
| 23 | at present good recruits often have to be chased to Bramshill [ on the lengthy command courses ] , because chief constables are not anxious to spare able men , and officers themselves are reluctant to be separated from their families and homes , as well as having a fear that they might lose from being ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ for promotion . |
| 24 | A good proportion of our work concerned our availability to act as an unacknowledged arm of the social welfare service to drug users in crisis situations , providing a front-line service for the ‘ speed freaks who 's OD 'd on the results of a bent script ’ , or the ‘ acid heads having a bad trip ’ , for we were in the streets , the pubs , the clubs , the crash pads , and communal houses frequented by the new ‘ alternative society ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Two old dykes having a little long overdue fun ? ’ |
| 26 | He thought he was having a secret affair , and everyone thought I did n't know and was terribly sympathetic . |
| 27 | I mean , she seemed to be having a good time . |
| 28 | Menzies and Fleming will never forget that two hours riding backwards , with every soul from Dull to Aberfeldy having a good look at their humiliation . ’ |
| 29 | It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go . |
| 30 | The dualism is deemed disastrous because it prevents us from having a unified conception of the world built around the natural sciences , and because it leaves the relationship between the mental and the physical an insoluble mystery . |