Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps it would be nice if somebody gave you a gift voucher for Christmas and it said an eyebrow trim , and you were dying to have an eyebrow trim but you did n't know where to come , and perhaps you were a little bit frightened about having one , so , it might , you know , get you to come into the salon . |
| 2 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 3 | So we were going to have a sketch . |
| 4 | If we said , like , if we , every second month say or every third month , then we , we knew we were going to have a speaker , we could the time before we could then do the business more thoroughly and carefully so that the month of the speaker we could just go through it very quickly . |
| 5 | And then we were going to have a day shopping in Ken . |
| 6 | But then , he could have had no idea that we were going to have a look at the Delos . |
| 7 | That 's cos you were going to have a look |
| 8 | None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved ! |
| 9 | Carrie thought it was partly because they were going to have a farewell tea at Druid 's Bottom . |
| 10 | All Saints , they were going to have a concert were n't they . |
| 11 | Erm , you will remember that after the last meeting we were going to have a meeting with Mr which we , which we subsequently did have and we put forward several erm possible uses for the old hospital , including re-siting of the library , relocation of the council offices , police station , day centre for the elderly , day services for the physically disabled , for young mothers and children centre and for a mental health services centre and he was delighted that we had the meeting because he has to meet with his superiors late in December , early January , when he has been asked to put forward ideas . |
| 12 | You know they were going to have a meal out and |
| 13 | I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in . |
| 14 | I thought we were going to have a visitor in the boot . |
| 15 | I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door . |
| 16 | And yo when I look back an and er and think of even when I first started nursing a lot of the girls we used to get in , they thought if they kissed a man they were going to have a baby . |
| 17 | They were going to have an identification parade . |
| 18 | But erm , funnily enough I I I was out erm , on Saturday evening , and by a strange coincidence , er , where we were sitting having a meal , erm , in the restaurant , erm , someone came in and joined us , we saw , some friends of ours , and he is a sociologist from the University . |
| 19 | Mazzin did n't lose his temper , although I could feel he was itching to have a go at me , but , as before , he knew he had no justification for doing so . |
| 20 | She does n't use the top one it 's jammed with paint and I loosened the saddle on the other when I was pretending to have a piss . |
| 21 | As a matter of fact , I was going to have a chat with Angy , you see , at this week 's art class , but of course … |
| 22 | He felt the Italian boy was going to have a go at him but I do n't know whether it was a punch or a head-butt . ’ |
| 23 | so , and er I said do you sell butterfly ones , and she said I was going to have a go at making them , but she said I ca n't make them like you , |
| 24 | ‘ So he was going to have a drink with you and help you get yours down , was that the idea ? ’ |
| 25 | For a moment she thought she was going to have a battle on her hands , then he relaxed , holding up his palms in a gesture of peace . |
| 26 | And the man had a mouthful of champagne and I thought he was going to have a heart attack . ’ |
| 27 | I exclaimed my heart beating so wildly I thought I was going to have a heart attack right there at the table . |
| 28 | The client may say , ‘ My heart was beating so fast I thought I was going to have a heart attack ’ , or , ‘ I ca n't cope any more ’ , or , ‘ I think I 'm going to end up in a mental hospital ’ . |
| 29 | She said that Allibar was going to have a heart attack and die . |
| 30 | She had thought for a moment that he was going to have a heart attack from shock , but , recovering himself , he had said , ‘ Well , now you know , what are you going to do about it ? ’ to which she had answered simply , ‘ Divorce , ’ and walked out . |