Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion seems inescapable that the electorate did have a significant impact in determining the composition of the Commons , and therefore the very nature of party strife at Westminster itself . |
| 2 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 3 | Information is also collected about the quality of teaching received , and although this has not yet been formally used in allocating money , one department did have part of its grant withheld for several months until it introduced clear teaching objectives . |
| 4 | Get granddad did have a look at his ears but erm he just had to dropped it erm |
| 5 | What the young Niki did have was expectations , which the bank recognized . |
| 6 | Quite apart from any other difficulties , it seemed implausible to suppose that a statement about a red rose in the dark did have exactly these or those consequences for possible observation . |
| 7 | Prepared in only a few weeks to satisfy an urgent need for cash on the part of Steinitz , who is building an auction house complex at Saint Ouen in the suburbs of Paris , the auction did have a catalogue covering 352 major items but without printed estimates . |
| 8 | Sometimes avoiding action did have to be taken . |
| 9 | However , the South African presidential delegation did have some informal meetings with members of the caucus , of which some members wanted all US sanctions sustained until the fifth condition was met — repeal of the Group Areas Act and of the Population Registration Act . |
| 10 | Now he knew that the Darkfall effect did have the answer to those questions and that Bissell could give him those answers . |
| 11 | After several hearings between November 1817 and April 1818 the court decided that the appellee did have this right . |
| 12 | A point which may be relevant to this was that virtually all those who had made a positive choice of credit type did have bank accounts — a factor which clearly brings bank loans into the range of credit possibilities for people . |
| 13 | Léger , whose researches had always been more highly personal than those of the other Cubists with whom he showed , and whose art was now becoming more obviously divergent , is also sometimes referred to as an Orphist ; this , however , is understandable since his work did have something in common with Delaunay 's . |
| 14 | In the present state of research it is probably fair to suggest that although influence did have a powerful impact on the outcome of a number of elections , on the whole the electorate was not particularly easy to control , and that members of the political elite , despite all their efforts , often failed to achieve their ends . |
| 15 | Mr Scrivener said that while the council did have the right to take out interest-rate swaps for debt management , other types of transaction were ultra vires . |
| 16 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 17 | The message added : ‘ The district council has taken legal advice from senior counsel who have confirmed that the district council did have a case which it could competently pursue against the local paper . |
| 18 | The failure of the Fouchet Plan did have one negative impact . |
| 19 | planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy . |
| 20 | And the machine did have bowels — she could smell them : a dark , rancid odour comprising the spilled residue of a hundred types of food . |
| 21 | But the community did have a couple of heroes in the military sense when the Second World War came , both members of a family which plays a leading role in the modern legends of Baldersdale — the Fawcetts of West Birk Hatt |
| 22 | But her husband did have consolation on Saturday , as we talked over Scotch and Peking duck : the sound of American cheers for his robust version of Boris Godunov . |
| 23 | The canal did have an ‘ official opening ’ last May , but it did not stay open for long . |
| 24 | Now the sun made everything sparkle and ( come on , admit it ) the place did have its attractions . |
| 25 | Now if you want to go and have a look at the other oth the oth other building , at er railway er the Railway , erm going down Road , er again a pointer to that one time this er town did have er a railway , er is of course the Arms . |
| 26 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |
| 27 | ( If the change in the production process did have a capital cost then some at least of the cost of that capital would go to pay the wages and salaries of those in the capital goods industry . |
| 28 | And consequently , er the blockade did have er did have serious er serious consequences for the imports in relation to food etcetera , that er that were required by the er by the republican government . |
| 29 | They found that more than half their sample did have previous admissions within the preceding year . |
| 30 | Pearlman was wrong because in that case the county court did have the ability to determine conclusively interrelated questions of law and fact . |