Example sentences of "have a [adj] affair with " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Small World the middle-aged English academic Philip Swallow has a wife called Hilary and has a passionate affair with a younger woman called Joy , who reminds him of his wife when she was younger and prettier — when he first meets her , Joy is even wearing a dressing gown like one Hilary used to wear . |
| 2 | Lord Palmerston was a notorious rake , having had a long-standing affair with Lady Cowper , whom he finally married in the late 1830s . |
| 3 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 4 | Finally , according to the lawyer , it 's likely that he was having a covert affair with a woman . |
| 5 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 6 | The unlikely stud causing all this hormonal activity is Palm Beach cop Jack Dobson — the distinctly unsexy James Belushi struggling in vain to be Michael Douglas — who is having a secret affair with rich , frustrated socialite Ellen Schofield , Lorraine Bracco dripping in diamonds . |
| 7 | UNA STUBBS , the star of TV shows ‘ Till Death Us Do Part ’ and ‘ Give Us a Clue ’ has admitted having a secret affair with pop singer Cliff Richard — 30 years ago . |
| 8 | Then , of course , he 'd send his friends similar notes — ca n't stay tonight , got terrible earache , or my mother 's not very well — because for something like a year or more , he was having a double affair with , — dare I mention her name — Natasha Kornilof , who was a great friend of mine . |
| 9 | The plot has still to be finalised but insiders say Marcus will find out he has AIDS after having a gay affair with Dieter , who is being written out of the show . |
| 10 | Insiders say he will get AIDS after having a gay affair with toyboy Dieter . |
| 11 | Now , six months after an American biographer , Donald Spoto , did a hatchet job on Olivier , accusing him of having a homosexual affair with Danny Kaye , the key is to be removed from its resting place . |
| 12 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 13 | Fiona , who supervised Davies for ten months , had a torrid affair with the former jailbird and became his self-confessed ‘ sex puppet . ’ |
| 14 | At school he had a three-year affair with a fellow student — ‘ a rummaging around adolescent affair ’ — and then went to college ‘ and got into girls ’ . |
| 15 | For example , the art teacher who had a four-year affair with a pupil or two prison officers accused of sexual offences involving inmates . |
| 16 | ‘ He had a short affair with my wife a long , long time ago . |
| 17 | What is the name of the woman who claims she had a 12-year affair with him ? |
| 18 | A night-club singer called Gennifer Flowers claimed that she had a 12-year affair with him . |
| 19 | Nevertheless I had a brief affair with the redoubtable Maud . |
| 20 | Jane had a fleeting affair with a tall , rangy Scottish lecturer , whose main pleasure was to walk for miles . |
| 21 | In Let's Make Love she had a well-publicized affair with her co-star , Yves Montand . |
| 22 | Maybe she 'll get married to Lewis but have a lifelong affair with you . ’ |