Example sentences of "have be having a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 2 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 6 | MELVYN BRAGG has been having a busy year . |
| 7 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 8 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
| 9 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 10 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 11 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 12 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 13 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 14 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 15 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
| 16 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 19 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 20 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 21 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 22 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 23 | As Maisie and Mr Malik 's relative were clearing away the destruction ( the Huysan twins had been having a mashed-potato fight with school spoons ) , he made his way up to the headmaster 's study . |
| 24 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 25 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 26 | I 've been having a mad one have n't I ? |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | Says 24-year-old Alex : ‘ We have been having a great time in Blackpool and are all so excited about coming to Liverpool . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |