Example sentences of "been have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 2 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 3 | And Tim has been having a go of his sinus plus conjunctivitis and something else he describes as angst and is being generally unsupportive . |
| 4 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 5 | He 's been having a go at Pete . |
| 6 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been having a nightmare , that 's all , ’ said Florrie . |
| 8 | It was as if she had been having a nightmare — terrible , perhaps , but still only a dream in which the money could vanish like fairy gold — and woken up to find it was true . |
| 9 | I 've been having a look at a twenty-bed hotel up near Windermere . |
| 10 | " I 've been having a look at the entire , " Bunny said . |
| 11 | Good , good getting hard this is n't it when you 've been having a holiday and you thought you were gon na have a nice play and we 're doing all this hard work . |
| 12 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 13 | It appears he and his boss have been having a relationship for two years . |
| 14 | They have been having a moan and a groan recently . |
| 15 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 16 | For the moment , however , they seem more relevant to Europe , which has been having a spot of bother with its own system of exchange-rate target zones . |
| 17 | Prestbury Park 's been having a heat wave … gallons upon gallons of water are being pumped onto the course to make the going good … |
| 18 | This year , I have been having a series of informal discussions with Church leaders , the voluntary sector , leading members of the police , probation and prison services , magistrates and others to consider what we can do to get at the roots of criminality . |
| 19 | She said bef , you know , she said before oh yeah , you know , when we 've been having a joke she said oh God I could do with a break from work she said , oh yeah ! |
| 20 | In recent months , I 've been having a lot of fun using a similar ‘ biological ’ approach to crack a certain type of code . |
| 21 | Aye , we we 've been having a lot of trouble with the people next door , and er |
| 22 | I hope your new proposals will work towards better rail-cycle facilities , as we have been having a lot of problems with Scotrail about the carriage of bikes . |
| 23 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 24 | Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’ |
| 25 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 26 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 27 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 28 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 29 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 30 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |