Example sentences of "have be have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 2 | Mr Brown has been having increasing pain and a " dragging " sensation in his right groin . |
| 3 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 4 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 5 | With his hand pressed firmly to a creased brown , Spencer uttered : ‘ Oh man , if I 'd known you were gon na wear shoes like that , we would n't have been having this conversation … ‘ |
| 6 | A sixteen-year-old girl ( they 're always sixteen in this story ) who had been having regular sex with her boyfriend , began worrying that he might lose interest in her if he had to keep wearing a condom . |
| 7 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 8 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 9 | I 've been having wonderful luck ever since May 25th . |
| 10 | He praised the performance of 18-year-old Grant Watts , scorer of Palace 's first goal in a shock 2-1 win , and said : ‘ It was a night to enjoy after all the trouble we 've been having this season . |
| 11 | So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed . |
| 12 | We have been having lovely weather , so we have been able to get out quite a lot . |
| 13 | Erm mine 's good but Martin 's been having some back trouble . |