Example sentences of "'d be have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 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 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 6 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 7 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 8 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 9 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |