Example sentences of "[vb past] been having [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
| 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 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 5 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 6 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 7 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 8 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 9 | Fifty Russian orphans who 'd been having the holiday of a lifetime in Britain have returned home … many of them in tears . |
| 10 | Fifty Russian orphans who 'd been having the holiday of a lifetime in Britain have returned home … many of them in tears . |
| 11 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 14 | Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’ |
| 15 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 16 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 17 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 18 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 19 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 20 | Her husband had been having an affair with Suzanne Regan . |
| 21 | Melissa played thoughtfully with her empty coffee mug and reflected on what now seemed the certainty that Rodney Shergold had been having an affair with Angy . |
| 22 | He got a job in insurance and the marriage lasted about three years and three months , then Bunny found out that his quiet , dutiful wife had been having an affair with her boss at the food research place where she worked for roughly three years and two months . |
| 23 | And Eddie Gilfoyle , who had been having an affair , tried to make it appear that she 'd committed suicide , it was alleged . |
| 24 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 25 | I had been having an affair with her husband . ’ |
| 26 | Stewart Skett , 21 , who had been having an affair with Mrs Green , a student nurse , yesterday denied having anything to do with her death . |
| 27 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |