Example sentences of "been having [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board has also been having ongoing talks with potential investors , but it was understood last night that the present worrying situation remained unchanged . |
| 2 | A sixteen-year-old girl ( they 're always sixteen in this story ) who had been having regular sex with her boyfriend , began worrying that he might lose interest in her if he had to keep wearing a condom . |
| 3 | The humans must have been having similar thoughts , if humans had thoughts . |
| 4 | Mr Brown has been having increasing pain and a " dragging " sensation in his right groin . |
| 5 | Rachel crawled into the confined space beside him , and with a little jolt she saw it was Len Seager , the man who had been having alcohol-related problems . |
| 6 | I have been asked to reply My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been having important discussions today with President Yeltsin , who is on his first visit abroad as President of an independent Russia . |
| 7 | You been having wet dreams about it ? |
| 8 | We have been having lovely weather , so we have been able to get out quite a lot . |
| 9 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 10 | been having some kind of direction there , has n't he , I mean at |
| 11 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 12 | Erm mine 's good but Martin 's been having some back trouble . |
| 13 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 14 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 15 | With his hand pressed firmly to a creased brown , Spencer uttered : ‘ Oh man , if I 'd known you were gon na wear shoes like that , we would n't have been having this conversation … ‘ |
| 16 | To compliment and complete the Scandinavian experience we ‘ ve been having this winter , The Whitworth Art Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum have collaborated to organise the first exhibition here of Norway 's most outstanding landscape painters , Johan christian Dahl ( 1788–1857 ) and Thomas Fearnley ( 1802–42 ) . |
| 17 | He praised the performance of 18-year-old Grant Watts , scorer of Palace 's first goal in a shock 2-1 win , and said : ‘ It was a night to enjoy after all the trouble we 've been having this season . |
| 18 | So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed . |
| 19 | The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields . |
| 20 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 21 | I said rapidly , ‘ I 've been having these dreams . |
| 22 | I 've been having wonderful luck ever since May 25th . |