Example sentences of "he [be] having a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will he be having a party ? ’ |
| 2 | But at least he is having a go . |
| 3 | I can tell when he is having a hypo because he gets disorientated and confused . |
| 4 | His work can be seen regularly at the Chris Beetles Gallery , where he is having a solo exhibition from March 31-April 16 |
| 5 | Oh no , he 's having a mid-life crisis . |
| 6 | Here 's the cavalry behind him , he 's having a go at them now . |
| 7 | Oh , everyone thought , he 's having a go at him about something . |
| 8 | The worried crook grabbed Derek 's radio and called his bosses : ‘ I 've just robbed your driver and I think he 's having a heart attack . ’ |
| 9 | Oh he 's having a test is n't he ? |
| 10 | ‘ He 's having a working lunch in his office , ’ explained Daphne , who had returned to the table for a second helping . |
| 11 | He 's having a look to see how much work he 's got in the office today and if he has n't got enough to worry about going to work tomorrow he 's just going to go fishing tomorrow . |
| 12 | Town 's team revolves around Glenn Hoddle he 's having a fitness check in the morning … |
| 13 | and he 's having a punch up with his brother and he keeps letting his brother hit him he 's got this holographic image he , who accompanies him with this fucking computer , and working out what 's going on why they 're there sort of thing cos he goes back in into to different times to help these people out |
| 14 | I says , because er you know , with him like working so he 's , he 's having a week off with |
| 15 | so he 's having a week off you know to change nappies or whatever . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's having a sabbatical while he sorts things out , ’ Paul Rossiter-Marvell , the club 's secretary , said yesterday . |
| 17 | But when it comes to the middle of the night , most of them prefer to leave it to mum to comfort the tiny tot when he 's having a tantrum . |
| 18 | Well , he 's having a party tonight . ’ |
| 19 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 20 | ‘ I bet he 's having a lot of fun with Roger Dyson 's daughter . |
| 21 | He 's having a lot of problems is n't he ? |
| 22 | ‘ He 's having a fit ! ’ |
| 23 | Look that 's it he 's having a fit Joy ! |
| 24 | Thinking of this , he wondered why he was feeling guilty , since from the professional point of view he was working — that is , he was having a working breakfast with some colleagues . |
| 25 | ‘ Apparently he was having a race round the deck with one of his friends and managed to slip and fall down the stairs . ’ |
| 26 | Well suppose he was having a shower was he ? |
| 27 | She would n't be a burden just because he was having a pang of conscience . |
| 28 | But I knew he was having a sleep . |
| 29 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 30 | He was having a go at the privet hen . |