Example sentences of "and having a [adj] " 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 | Dr Pertwee said it could be that the genetic substance is helping the human memory to function properly and having a controlling or modulatory role on the brain . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And by sitting down and having a technical and commercial conversation together |
| 16 | By virtue of having a prior claim on assets and having a fixed and legally enforceable income and redemption , fixed interest debentures are usually assumed to offer less risk to the investor . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These moulds on a smaller scale , filled with earth and grain , and having a similar function to corn dollies , are also found in tombs . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ One minute , ’ said Elinor , who seemed to have cheered up considerably , ‘ there he was laughing and joking and having a good time . |
| 24 | After a time I settled down into a routine of work , sleep and having a good time — and not necessarily in that order . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Jon sees the key to it all as simply getting out and having a good time : ‘ I just do it for a laugh , basically . |
| 27 | ‘ If you 're really enjoying yourself and having a good time , you do n't really notice the camera . ’ |
| 28 | The neighbour told the inquest : ‘ He had the freedom of spending money and having a good time with his friends . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He was a big fat man , who liked drinking too much and having a good time . |