Example sentences of "[adv] having a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I do n't mind going up to their house , sitting down having a cup of tea and biscuit |
| 2 | I only having a look at it . |
| 3 | I was only having a bit of fun . ’ |
| 4 | All kinds of little situations like this can cause enormous problems , so having a bit of extra muscle-power will insure us against possible injury . |
| 5 | The result of the two intelligence services , army intelligence , the Royal Ulster Constabulary 's Special Branch , and various odd freelancers all having a go at the same time was , not surprisingly , a total disaster . |
| 6 | They were all having a packet of chips and fish — whoever fetched them I do n't know , cos they were all up for a good age : tell you , she were a hundred just in St Patrick 's Day . |
| 7 | Ward was still asleep when I turned right and headed eastwards towards the Andes , the mist a white vapour , the rice fields , the cacti , the occasional trees , all having a weirdness about them that matched my mood and added to my growing fear of what lay ahead , beyond the mountains I could not see . |
| 8 | It is generally thought that homophobic prejudice kept Minton out of the Academy , Munnings especially having a dislike of both him and his art . |
| 9 | He was bent over the prow of a little wooden sailboat — he was obviously having a rest from speedboat practice today — and was busily tightening something with a big screwdriver . |
| 10 | It bounces along wonderfully , with Caine obviously having a whale of a time , and is ideal kiddies ' Christmas fare . |
| 11 | On the other hand , it fits very well with the fact that , while obviously having a relation of some sort with the noun , these adjectives are questioned not by the interrogative word usual for attributive adjectives , but by a word which typically is used to question adverbs . |
| 12 | Perhaps the constable who carried out the test was merely having a run of bad luck . |
| 13 | Have CARTER USM gone rock dinosaur on us , or are they merely having a joke at their record company 's not inconsiderable expense ? |
| 14 | And Wright , whose misery over the weekend was compounded when he wasted a glorious chance to rescue a point for Arsenal , added : ‘ Some people are just having a go at me for the sake of it and it 's beginning to get to me . ’ |
| 15 | Y yes we 're just we 're just having a look at the the spellings at the moment trying to make some sense of them . |
| 16 | Erm just before we break , erm it might be worthwhile just having a look at a few examples . |
| 17 | ‘ I was just having a word with Personnel , ’ he explained . |
| 18 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 19 | Many teachers , I have found , can remember from their own schooldays the shock and guilt they felt when a teacher finally broke down in the face of what , to the class , had seemed to be ‘ just having a bit of fun ’ . |
| 20 | I think it 's just having a bit of erm |
| 21 | Not just having a majority in parliament to govern you and that was being described at that particular time by the Tory government that their majority would be adequate they had a majority of twenty one . |
| 22 | Surely in a way I 'm answering my own point , you would have to go beyond just having a set of words on paper which says we have a major exceptions policy . |
| 23 | I 'm just having a walk round this way . |
| 24 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 25 | When I was a lad I could have seventy for them , I sat on there and I licked it up , er , a good afternoon , I was just having a break by sands , I said when I was a lad I could have seventy ice creams |
| 26 | okay I think what we might think about doing is maybe just having a meeting for an hour one evening on that one subject |
| 27 | ’ He was infallible , kindly and not above having a go at the medicinal whisky . |
| 28 | Definition : A Treasury Bill is an instrument of short-term borrowing by the government , normally having a life of ninety-one days . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not having a relationship with her , ’ he said , ‘ if that 's what you think . ’ |
| 30 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |