Example sentences of "it was [prep] having " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the piece of paper away with him , the name filled in above the pre-signed certificate , and showed it to Barnett who was pleased and who believed that it was worth having . |
| 2 | He thought it was worth having back in Northallerton after such a gap . |
| 3 | ‘ I was no angel , but I was sent off just twice in over 20 years in the game and on both occasions it was for having a go at referees . |
| 4 | ‘ It was like having a severe bout of food poisoning that never got better , ’ she recalled . |
| 5 | For Diana , it was like having an ally in the camp , and Balmoral was much more enjoyable that year with Fergie about . |
| 6 | It was like having a perfect home of their own . |
| 7 | It was like having lunch with the Sunshine Boys . ’ |
| 8 | It was like having a baby of her own again . |
| 9 | ‘ My mother told me it was like having red hair . |
| 10 | ‘ It was like having a different daughter , ’ laughs Mike turning to an entry in Kelly 's diary . |
| 11 | With that , ‘ something came out of me … it was like having an unbearably heavy weight cut loose . ’ |
| 12 | We used to do speed and stuff and I could never get to sleep because they 'd always be in my bed — it was like having kittens in the house . |
| 13 | It was like having this image of yourself being heated up and being sold as the new you or something . |
| 14 | It was like having the breath knocked out of her . |
| 15 | It was like having jumped up and down on a beautiful springboard , relishing the thrill of the plunge into the deep roaring water , and then diving at last into an empty pool . |
| 16 | In a funny kind of way , she thought , it was like having Judd back . |
| 17 | It was like having a third person , an onlooker , in the room . |
| 18 | I 've never felt hostility like that before , there was violence everywhere , I could smell it like something crawling out of the ground , it was like having second sight , the sense that something terrible was going to happen and there was nothing you could do to stop it . |
| 19 | It was like having a knife twisted in the wound . |
| 20 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |