Example sentences of "[vb past] have [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 I did have one fairly regular customer though , and it was amazing how we started off .
2 It helps if you keep the place tidy and regularly mucked out , and we did have one which kept its bed and its toilet place quite separate .
3 He did n't often take advice from me , thank goodness , but I did have one little triumph .
4 I mean we did have one at Easter time did n't we ?
5 He usually held his drink well , and behaved like a gentleman even when he did have one too many .
6 As for safety , well I did have one fairly close encounter when I was visiting the ladies toilet in the basement of the hotel .
7 ‘ I did have one .
8 Whilst there , I ask if they had a spare room , and they did have one upstairs which was very cheap .
9 And what we in fact the the reason we tell people everything on the phone Ron is that there are some things that pen I did have one here ,
10 well she did have one it , she 's had an operation , but er , I , she manages to go to the post on a Sunday afternoon , she must write to her sister in Australia , which makes a little round trip , a bit of exercise that 's what you ought to do more of
11 He did have one today all morning
12 I did have one in the drawer though , I do n't know if it 's still there
13 He did have something official because the nurses , like , said he had to .
14 Those journals that did have something to say matched the mainstream press in concentrating on the ‘ reality ’ of the programme 's scenario .
15 It was a weird , time , with white rastas , art-school escapees , old rockers and punk fanzine costermongers coming together to discover that maybe they did have something in common after all .
16 It must be noted first that the Liberals really did have something to hide over Marconi , but it must be .
17 But I did have something in mind — a biography of Mahler . ’
18 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 .
19 Yes , I did have something on , but nothing I ca n't cancel .
20 But I could at least sense that even the most feared and serious of all the mental illnesses did have something to do with me , however disturbing that may have seemed at the time .
21 Maybe Gina did have something .
22 What you overheard that day did have something to do with Martin in a way .
23 Originally you were n't really looking at it , five of you all fell into the same trap , you know , they , they get half way through , and they did have something to do and they did sort of start rushing .
24 To reply instead yes would give a feeling of ‘ finality ’ , of ‘ end of the conversation ’ ; if A did have something to say about John Smith , the response with a fall would make it difficult for A to continue .
25 Oh , yeah they did have something did n't they ?
26 now , you 're gon na get anybody with that , but let's suppose that you did have somebody that was really there we want that blacked out really
27 Going away for just a day before Christmas to visit a friend or relative , just to let Alan Markby and Laura Danby know that she did have someone else , would bolster her morale .
28 However , what I can do is try to present to you some of the points of view we tried to draw together in that group because we did have someone who is a proprietor of a private home ; we had people from health ; we had people from social work ; we had people from housing ; we had people from different interest groups who approached the issue in different ways .
29 ‘ That 's probably why he instructs my head of department to keep me so busy , ’ she answered lightly , and then , with a jolt of astonishment , wondered if Naylor did have anything to do with the multitude of files that landed on her desk every day .
30 ‘ You never did have anything to fear from me , Fernando , ’ she told him softly , lowering her lashes to try and hide the pain in her eyes .
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