Example sentences of "was [adv] have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was obviously having problems with his brain .
2 In point of fact the reverse ruled : I was constantly having chits thrust at me giving me a blow-by-blow account of " Charlie 's " state of health , but I was never made aware of the seriousness of Eddie 's wound , and somehow I did not know until I visited him in hospital later that morning .
3 And God and mercy me that was just have mercy on me .
4 ‘ Aw , I was just having fun , ’ said the dog .
5 Moira Murray from Finance at Peel Park was just having fun when she phoned the Q96 local radio station from her home in Cardonald , Glasgow .
6 Her only comfort was not to have Miss Beard in her room , to be able to suffer in solitude .
7 But he was always having fun so I suppose its the imagination that counts is n't it .
8 He was always having visions of the house catching fire at night .
9 The last tour , I had so much stuff and I was always having trouble with it breaking down and having to troubleshoot .
10 Carol White was still having problems with sequencing at three-and-a-half-years : ‘ Again and again , there are … indications of how slight is the small child 's sense of continuity ’ ( White , 1954 , p.56 ) .
11 McWilliams was still having problems with the suspension on his Yamaha during the final practice session and said afterwards : ‘ I needed a higher starting position to have a chance tomorrow but I have learned a lot and I 'm going to prepare for my first World championship by having a good nights sleep . ’
12 They played well together but she was still having difficulty balancing the needs of two children since the younger one could walk and demand a lot of attention .
13 In April he was still having difficulty in completing the book and in a letter to Henry Treece in September he was again expressing doubts about himself as a writer .
14 She was still having difficulty gathering her thoughts together .
15 Felipe was still having breakfast when Maggie went down the next morning , and it caught her off guard .
16 Although she felt she had settled down a lot since her last release from prison , she was still having difficulties coping with the day-to-day strain and isolation of being a single parent .
17 She was still having trouble getting her breath .
18 When your mother was sort of having a lot of a lot of children and and after you you know you you were growing up and she was still having children erm had you any idea of erm the processes by which all this was coming about ?
19 She said that she was probably had stomach ache because she was hungry .
20 I turned to Lorne , who was also having difficulty in breathing , and was quite aware of the idiocy of attempting a further rope descent ( and hopefully subsequent ascent ) with our equipment .
21 And last week its big sister , the Doel 3 , was also having problems .
22 There was no problem with the recipe ; he was simply having difficulty in concentrating enough to read two lines of text in sequence .
23 He was rather proud of the Punch that had floored the Punk , and he was n't having Polly make mock of it .
24 She was n't having things all her own way , now or for some little time to come .
25 And when she was n't having tantrums , she was fantastic .
26 In the winter of 1956 , he was further irritated by problems with his teeth : he was about to have X-rays for the three which remained to him .
27 A BANNED driver took a chance and used a van to rush to hospital when he heard his wife was about to have twins .
28 Shortly after moving to Wales , Bernard , who was continually having trouble with the finely tuned engine of his Lotus Elite , had discovered a motor club .
29 On a day when Mr Kinnock was storming Southampton with helicopter and balloons , Prof Plant was quietly having lunch at home after a visit to his department .
30 On a day when Mr Kinnock was storming Southampton with helicopter and balloons , Prof Plant was quietly having lunch at home after a visit to his department .
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