Example sentences of "and having a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That my being alive and changing and having a separate mind and having moods and all that was becoming a nuisance . |
| 2 | He is up there and having a great time . |
| 3 | Laura 's father Les said : ‘ We are looking forward to getting back and living a normal life and having a great Christmas together as a family . ’ |
| 4 | Steering through foliage at night , it needs good accommodation and it achieves 5 dioptres by changing the shape of its lens and having a corrugated retina . |
| 5 | For the irony is , in a society like ours apparently dedicated to ‘ law and order ’ and having a penal policy based largely on deterrent principles , it appears that corporate crime somehow gets left out of the arena of legal and social control . |
| 6 | And if we lived in the country then it would n't be me coming home every night whacked out and wanting to be looked after and having a squawking infant instead . |
| 7 | ‘ The next day you are on an aircraft and having a bumpy ride . |
| 8 | But we just you know like Saturday night we really enjoy making a nice meal and having a nice bottle of wine or something and doing something |
| 9 | At the beginning of the decade , there were affiliated to the French Confederation of Producer Co-operatives ( SCOP ) some 670 active industrial co-operatives , organised in eleven regions each with a full-time staff of organisers and advisers , and having a combined turnover of £500 million . |
| 10 | If you 're running around locally and having a cheap motor now . |
| 11 | It could possibly have been an animal , for witnesses have described it as being ‘ woolly ’ and having a stale smell , rather like a sheep . |
| 12 | For a man of my age I have n't been to many funerals , the result of belonging to a much reduced family and having a limited acquaintance . |
| 13 | It is obviously different from fostering a small child , because there may be far more potential for personality clashes as young women try to cope with having a baby and having a foster mother . |
| 14 | Quinn counted on Zack having spent three weeks reading miles of inaccurate nonsense in the tabloid papers and having a healthy contempt for the press . |
| 15 | These moulds on a smaller scale , filled with earth and grain , and having a similar function to corn dollies , are also found in tombs . |
| 16 | Maternal risk factors known at booking were age under 18 or over 35 ; primiparity or parity of more than three ; being in manual or non-manual work ; being less than 158 cm tall ; attending antenatal care after 18 weeks ' gestation ; having diabetes ; being a smoker ; being of Asian origin ; having a history of infertility ; having a husband in social class III manual , IV , or V ; and having a general practitioner not on the obstetric list . |
| 17 | For Roy , being born in St Andrews and having a keen golfer for a dad , it was inevitable that he would eventually be bitten by the bug . |
| 18 | Ragu Bolognese p84 Raisins p61 Raspberry & Hazelnut Vinaigrette p28 Rice p56 Rice , Arborio p57/ Italian round grain rice , used for risotto , also called risotto rice Rice , Basmati p57/ A fine , long-grain rice grown in the Himalayas Rice , Brown p56/ Unpolished rice still containing bran but with the husk removed Rice , wild p57/ A brown grain grown in North America and having a nutty flavour Risotto Milanese p58/ A rich rice dish containing butter and Parmesan cheeses Risotto , Suppertime p13 |
| 19 | A conveyancer is just as much dependent upon being well organised and having a methodical mind as upon his or her knowledge of the law . |
| 20 | But er but I was at my late forties and er er there are still times that you you feel that that urge to be involved in the er meeting up with your mates every day or your colleagues and having a good chat about business . |
| 21 | ‘ One minute , ’ said Elinor , who seemed to have cheered up considerably , ‘ there he was laughing and joking and having a good time . |
| 22 | After a time I settled down into a routine of work , sleep and having a good time — and not necessarily in that order . |
| 23 | I do carry a few prizes if I have requests but I prefer to have people involved and enjoying games for the fun of joining in and having a good time , rather than to win a reward . |
| 24 | Jon sees the key to it all as simply getting out and having a good time : ‘ I just do it for a laugh , basically . |
| 25 | ‘ If you 're really enjoying yourself and having a good time , you do n't really notice the camera . ’ |
| 26 | The neighbour told the inquest : ‘ He had the freedom of spending money and having a good time with his friends . |
| 27 | But Susan Einzig had a more significant , also more complex , place in his life : though to all appearances she and Minton were a couple , he used her as a decoy to attract into their orbit , through her role as the attractive elder woman , keen on dancing and having a good time , the lusty heterosexual students whose company Minton needed and whom , when rebuffed by Susan , he scooped up on the rebound , with mocking asides about the inadequacy of women . |
| 28 | He was a big fat man , who liked drinking too much and having a good time . |
| 29 | They got no putting a bit of best clothes on and having a good time breaking in in people 's houses and one thing and another . |
| 30 | I love most pop music , Home and Away , nightclubs and having a good time . |