Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] have [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was having little joy with the fine slub yarns in different colours . |
| 2 | Yeah , rich colour I was having this year very well . |
| 3 | Anyway , so I , I was getting a bit worried about it , and , I can , cos I was having these headaches , and I started talking to Phil and I , I had n't really said much to him about it . |
| 4 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 5 | I got to know Rosemary before Basil ; she was my Art Adviser in my earliest days of teaching and how fortunate I was to have such encouragement , support and stimulation . |
| 6 | Soon after my operation , I was to have another experience of this ignorance . |
| 7 | If I was to have any chance of being posted to Calvi , I would have to come in the top five in basic training . |
| 8 | A government survey found that , of those elderly people who were having some difficulty in coping with the tasks of everyday life , about half were helped by members of their family who provided help with shopping , cleaning , the preparation of meals and laundry . |
| 9 | ‘ You did n't look as if you were having much fun , ’ he said dangerously . |
| 10 | For example , ‘ Your GP got in touch with me to say you were having some problems with your daughter , Anne . |
| 11 | You might get a real bad one and then you had a rough time but mostly they gave way and very often , if you got a drunk , another policeman saw you were having some difficulty . |
| 12 | You were having more success than I. ’ |
| 13 | By the time Judith was seven , it was quite obvious to Bertha Cohen that if she was to have any hope of achieving the enlargement of her life that she dreamed of she would just have to try again . |
| 14 | ‘ She was having another baby , but something went wrong — apparently , she was never strong — and she and the child both died . ’ |
| 15 | She was having more fun than she had ever had before . |
| 16 | Vera Shroff , a mathematics student , found that tutoring brought back the fun of a subject she was having some teething troubles in coping with at university level . |
| 17 | She was having enough trouble fending off his considerable charms . |
| 18 | And the announcement that we were having that visit . |
| 19 | His room overlooked our house , and he could watch the comings and goings — we were having some turf laid at the time in which he was taking a great interest — and I used to drive round there every evening at half past five and bring him home for a meal , after which we would chat or watch television . |
| 20 | Well , while we were having this conversation , there was a lady in the office who used to work for Fred Astaire and when I left she rang him up . |
| 21 | It 's , it 's funny because we , we were having this conversation before we came in were n't we ? |
| 22 | he supposedly , he , two short planks does not describe this boy , even Miss hates him that was it , she , we were having this discussion right in education , she goes , are you cynical about education Terry , he goes , no , he goes , oh she goes why ? |
| 23 | and when we were having this argument on Wednesday he said I said we what what was your reason then for not paying me for that when I was genuinely sick and he said er oh he said because I gave you such a good bonus last week , I said what was that then , he said erm twenty five pounds , I said no you did n't ! |
| 24 | You could keep them a as long as it was a reasonable way from the street as you might say and , and were fortunate because our pigstys had been built years before and they were ooh , suitably fifty to sixty yards from the main road you see , but I used to laugh at that when we , when we were having these pigs killed . |
| 25 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 26 | The news broke that we were to have another squadron of Pathfinders , but these were going to be crack troops flying Mosquitoes , a much smaller aircraft than the good old faithful Lancaster , and much faster . |
| 27 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 28 | A new approach to central area redevelopment was implied if the argument was accepted , that if we were to have any chance of living with the car , then a different type of city was needed . |
| 29 | " We began with history , and covered the early years of Queen Elizabeth , and we were to have some music practice , but I persuaded Miss Powers to leave that until later this afternoon , lest it disturb you . " |
| 30 | Now , well you see , she o , we was having this discussion about education and she goes , are you cynical about education Terry ? |