Example sentences of "was having [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was having little joy with the fine slub yarns in different colours . |
| 2 | Jack , however , was having little joy finding a suitable field for the take-off . |
| 3 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 4 | ‘ She told me Nicola was having this affair … |
| 5 | Now , well you see , she o , we was having this discussion about education and she goes , are you cynical about education Terry ? |
| 6 | Yeah , rich colour I was having this year very well . |
| 7 | Anyway , so I , I was getting a bit worried about it , and , I can , cos I was having these headaches , and I started talking to Phil and I , I had n't really said much to him about it . |
| 8 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 9 | Vera Shroff , a mathematics student , found that tutoring brought back the fun of a subject she was having some teething troubles in coping with at university level . |
| 10 | Thiercelin had quite normal feelings where women were concerned , and was having some difficulty in controlling himself . |
| 11 | But it became increasingly obvious that Britain , the mightiest Imperial power , was having some difficulty in defeating a relatively small number of Boer farmers . |
| 12 | He was having some trouble with one section . |
| 13 | She had the feeling that Julius , too , was having some trouble controlling his memories of the past . |
| 14 | Firstly , it seems to have been well established at the time that Darrel was having some sort of incestuous relationship with his sister , a woman several years younger but only slightly less wayward than her brother . |
| 15 | Soon afterwards Betty Law was having another presentation , this time in the board room as the assembled directors and senior management gave her a colour television on behalf of the company . |
| 16 | ‘ She was having another baby , but something went wrong — apparently , she was never strong — and she and the child both died . ’ |
| 17 | She was having more fun than she had ever had before . |
| 18 | LEEDS United 's England midfielder David Batty was having more treatment to his injured ankle today . |
| 19 | I had n't heard any shouting so therefore I did n't believe that anybody else was having any problems . |
| 20 | He never drove his car if he was having any drink with his lunch . |
| 21 | He was lost , only the memory of the baby he no longer was having any reality in her mind . |
| 22 | I paused , to see if it was having any effect . |
| 23 | When we asked Russian officials whether the beef was having any impact on meat prices in Russia , we were told that it was not . |
| 24 | He was having enough difficulty understanding his own feelings , without trying to fathom out Carrie 's . |
| 25 | For the first time in his life , William was having enough food to eat and was not being beaten into submission by his bully of a father . |
| 26 | She was having enough trouble fending off his considerable charms . |