Example sentences of "did have [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We did have separate supplies in station . |
2 | I do n't think the boys ever did have far to go , but Weenie did have . ’ |
3 | He did have good words to say for its menfolk ; ‘ … sturdy and bold , honest and sagacious ’ . |
4 | In the case of Camden and Islington , the authority did have good officers , and they did have the capacity to plan for a future district based provision . |
5 | However that may be , Cnut 's considerable generosity to Canterbury implies that he did have good relations with Æthelnoth , and this possibly made him the more determined to control the selection of his successor . |
6 | Although there was no other region which he dominated for the king , he did have other land which allowed him to exercise lordship on a more modest scale . |
7 | ‘ I did have other priorities . ’ |
8 | Norwich did have other chances , top scorer Mark Robins seeing a superb volley ruled out for offside — but most of those came towards the end of the game as desperate Oldham charged forward in a vain attempt to gain a point . |
9 | Although there was no other region which he dominated for the king , he did have other land which allowed him to exercise lordship on a more modest scale . |
10 | Leith vetoed the idea before he could voice it — though she had to admit that the idea of living and working in London did have tremendous appeal . |
11 | ‘ You always did have strange ideas . ’ |
12 | But Grandad did have certain very useful talents . |
13 | Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously . |
14 | For example , de Gaulle 's December 1944 meeting with Stalin , which led to the signing of a Franco-Soviet pact , did not bring any substantial diplomatic advantage to France ( although it did have favourable domestic repercussions ) . |
15 | I wanted to tell him that the proletariat of the suburbs did have strong class feeling . |
16 | Where he did have strong personal views , he proved less willing or less able to implement them over the opposition of others . |
17 | But he did have fancy thoughts sometimes , nor were they always wrong . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | No , you picked up i I mean , I put that she recognized the gap between you know , the Russian ally to the Ger , I presume they did have Russian ally . |
20 | On the other hand , given the state of confusion in France and the fact that Thorez himself was in Moscow , it was not clear that the communist hierarchy was in a position to control communist maquisards , many of whom undoubtedly did have revolutionary aspirations . |
21 | She was n't going to give her smiles away — not till she 'd fixed her position , and certainly not to an ugly pock-marked thing like Miss Phoebe with her beaky nose and whiskery chin … though she did have nice eyes . |
22 | The Court of Appeal admitted that Ms Mountford did have exclusive possession of the property and that this might be important evidence in determining the intentions of the parties . |
23 | We think you did have extra coupons when you got married . |
24 | Second , in the case of the other seven indicator agencies , which did have central recording systems , visits were made by members of the research team who transcribed all of the required information on to prestructured forms . |
25 | In India , Pakistan and East Africa the elders of a family ( in-laws , husbands , older cousins , uncles and aunts ) did have real power . |
26 | ‘ By the Lord , Jimmie , you always did have rose-edged ambitions , but like sunsets they fade . ’ |
27 | ‘ He did have talking eyes . ’ |
28 | After all , you did have forewarning that it could happen . ’ |
29 | Though our screening method is semiquantitative , the seven unconfirmed cases did have creatine kinase values lower than those which were subsequently confirmed as increased on a later venous sample . |
30 | It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future . |