Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 5 | In recent months , I 've been having a lot of fun using a similar ‘ biological ’ approach to crack a certain type of code . |
| 6 | I 've been having a look at a twenty-bed hotel up near Windermere . |
| 7 | ‘ Simply to tell you that I 've been having a most interesting conversation . ’ |
| 8 | " I 've been having a look at the entire , " Bunny said . |
| 9 | I 've been having a mad one have n't I ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 12 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
| 13 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 14 | ‘ You 've been having a nightmare , that 's all , ’ said Florrie . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 18 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | No she said she 's been to have a look at , it 's Glenys I do n't , no not Glenys |
| 21 | Aye , we we 've been having a lot of trouble with the people next door , and er |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Says 24-year-old Alex : ‘ We have been having a great time in Blackpool and are all so excited about coming to Liverpool . |
| 25 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 26 | They have been having a moan and a groan recently . |
| 27 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |
| 28 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 29 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 30 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |