Example sentences of "[verb] been having a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And Tim has been having a go of his sinus plus conjunctivitis and something else he describes as angst and is being generally unsupportive .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 She 'd been having a nightmare .
5 I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room .
6 It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it .
7 It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true .
8 Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes .
9 Good , good getting hard this is n't it when you 've been having a holiday and you thought you were gon na have a nice play and we 're doing all this hard work .
10 ‘ You 've been having a nightmare , that 's all , ’ said Florrie .
11 I 've been having a look at a twenty-bed hotel up near Windermere .
12 " I 've been having a look at the entire , " Bunny said .
13 In recent months , I 've been having a lot of fun using a similar ‘ biological ’ approach to crack a certain type of code .
14 Aye , we we 've been having a lot of trouble with the people next door , and er
15 She said bef , you know , she said before oh yeah , you know , when we 've been having a joke she said oh God I could do with a break from work she said , oh yeah !
16 It appears he and his boss have been having a relationship for two years .
17 ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself .
18 They have been having a moan and a groan recently .
19 I hope your new proposals will work towards better rail-cycle facilities , as we have been having a lot of problems with Scotrail about the carriage of bikes .
20 This year , I have been having a series of informal discussions with Church leaders , the voluntary sector , leading members of the police , probation and prison services , magistrates and others to consider what we can do to get at the roots of criminality .
21 He 's been having a go at Pete .
22 Prestbury Park 's been having a heat wave … gallons upon gallons of water are being pumped onto the course to make the going good …
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