Example sentences of "was having a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been on the floor for nearly every dance , and was having a whale of a time . |
| 2 | Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ? |
| 3 | Oh funny thing I was having a look at one of Carrie 's , she 's got the Radio Times which we do n't get , only at Christmas time . |
| 4 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |
| 5 | ‘ Apparently he was having a race round the deck with one of his friends and managed to slip and fall down the stairs . ’ |
| 6 | But it was Dr George Tolley , director of the MSC 's Open Tech Unit , whatever that is , who was having a go about professional people not keeping up with developments in their professions . |
| 7 | ‘ I should think that just about everyone was having a go at everyone else by the time it ended . |
| 8 | He was having a go at the privet hen . |
| 9 | For example , there was the caddie who was asked by Harry Vardon , who was having a dose of the horrors , ‘ What on earth should I take now ? ’ |
| 10 | By the pool at Château Kitsch , which was as blue as Enid Coley 's hostess gown , Trace , who 'd changed into a slinky black dress , was having a row with Randy Sherwood . |
| 11 | It 's just that — well , last night I was having a drink with him at the Dragon . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I just said that I was having a drink with her to ask her what she would really like as a wedding present from the firm , because men are no good at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 13 | Before he saw Nicandra alone on the stand , he had noticed a different kind of tension ; it was in the bar , where Andrew was having a drink with Lalage , while now , he guessed , Nicandra would be getting the money on to Lalage 's horse . |
| 14 | A VISITOR to the area was having a drink in Headley 's Holly Bush public house on Friday evening when someone stole all the plastic wheel trims from his Vauxhall Cavalier parked in the pub car park . |
| 15 | Two nights later , Derek was having a drink in the same hotel when the same person approached him accompanied by a second man who gave his name as Alexander Atkins . |
| 16 | We even had a hot line set up between the reception at London Weekend and Number 10 , and a call did come through , but thankfully it was after we 'd done the show , when she was having a drink in the hospitality room . |
| 17 | Innocent victim John Magee ( 54 ) was having a drink in the Capital Bar , Dublin Road , when a sectarian bomb planted by Corry and two UDA men ripped the pub apart . |
| 18 | INGOLSTADT was having a kind of festival , a Projectwoche , entitled Eine Welt für Alle ( One World for All ) . |
| 19 | Certainly into the ivy he was having a crack at . |
| 20 | She would n't be a burden just because he was having a pang of conscience . |
| 21 | I frowned and brought my head up , suddenly thinking that it might just be stuffed ; perhaps somebody was having a laugh at my expense . |
| 22 | Put it this way if I was having a problem with a member of my staff , or was , and we felt we wanted your help then you would come in and talk to them |
| 23 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 24 | Yeah you told me he was having a bit of trouble . |
| 25 | I was having a spell as a civilian after leaving the Territorial Army in mild disgrace . |
| 26 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 27 | Breeze , hoping to please her , gave a lemonade and sandwich party one evening , to which she invited Roger , Tony , the two younger Blessington-Dalrymples , and that live wire , Mr Dare , who was working much too hard now that his Hungarian wife was having a holiday in her native land . |
| 28 | They thought I was having a fight with him . |
| 29 | She told her she was having a relationship with Gerry , but not that they had started sleeping together . |
| 30 | Ten minutes later I was having a snack in the bizarre Gower Reptile Exhibition Centre in Pitton ; here you can feast on delicacies such as pies , beans , chips or cake and pay £1.50 to go into a small room to admire a collection of tropical frogs , snakes , giant lizards and so on . |