Example sentences of "[pron] have been having [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry , I 've been having one or two bad dreams lately . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been having one of my little do 's again with men on the doorstep . |
| 4 | I 've been having wonderful luck ever since May 25th . |
| 5 | I said rapidly , ‘ I 've been having these dreams . |
| 6 | It 's funny you know , since I 've been having these new cars I see these old cars , what a lot of bloody rubbish on the road , you know ! |
| 7 | I 've been having some quite intelligent guesses but no one 's hit the nail on the head . |
| 8 | I 've been having this thought all day . |
| 9 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 10 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 11 | Some sort of ex-military man who 'd been having some rather rough games with some of the boys . |
| 12 | You 've been having some of that , yeah . |
| 13 | Rachel crawled into the confined space beside him , and with a little jolt she saw it was Len Seager , the man who had been having alcohol-related problems . |
| 14 | A sixteen-year-old girl ( they 're always sixteen in this story ) who had been having regular sex with her boyfriend , began worrying that he might lose interest in her if he had to keep wearing a condom . |
| 15 | A teenager who 's been having pioneering medical treatment to help him grow , is back on his feet … and learning karate . |
| 16 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 17 | He praised the performance of 18-year-old Grant Watts , scorer of Palace 's first goal in a shock 2-1 win , and said : ‘ It was a night to enjoy after all the trouble we 've been having this season . |
| 18 | So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed . |
| 19 | We have been having lovely weather , so we have been able to get out quite a lot . |
| 20 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 21 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |