Example sentences of "[verb] have a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did sound so very sure of himself — and , now that she came to look at it , the wallet she was handing over so meekly did have a distinctly masculine air … |
| 2 | It did have a most beautiful sleeve , a yellow tint vision of a young Pat Phoenix , a product of Morrissey 's youthful Coronation Street obsession . |
| 3 | We did have a very broad search , ’ adds Whittaker . |
| 4 | But they did have a very clear idea of how they wanted the house to look and resigned themselves to living with the mess while they tackled it room by room . |
| 5 | He did have a very hard time which we , as children , could not understand … they took care of Richard as you know but my mother also had to look after the children left in 2 Dan-y-bont , Pontrhydyfen , travelling there at least twice a week on two separate buses with Richard , a two-year-old , in tow . |
| 6 | Na er well of course I 'm seve seventy nine but I can still remember most of it and I did have a very bad time ! |
| 7 | And there were times indeed , I think , that the effect of the very strong resistance to public-expenditure cuts and then the promulgation of an alternative economic strategy , which I myself was much concerned with , did have a very considerable effect . |
| 8 | It was n't much of a smile , but it did have a faintly superior tinge to it and Lydia began to feel better . |
| 9 | He was n't even the first to tell Ferrari he 'd be back one day with a car to beat him , but the laconic Texan did have a more-than-usually colourful way of putting it . |
| 10 | Not in a hundred per cent of the cases , er and we do have undesirables at the John Radcliffe , er but there has n't been an incident such as this er I think that goes some way to prove that we do have a reasonably tight security service , and we , we work to any way that we can to keep it as secure as possible . |
| 11 | I do have a little more information . |
| 12 | But we do have a fairly neutral stance at the Teacher 's Centre … |
| 13 | If you do have a fairly sophisticated information service it is easy to think that you have all the answers to hand , but this may not be the case . |
| 14 | Precisely who falls into the outer circle of effective kin , or the inner circle of intimate kin , is not entirely predictable in individual cases , although people normally do have a fairly clear notion of two different categories , for whom different terms may be employed . |
| 15 | I do have a fairly in-depth understanding of the European market , even though that market is changing . |
| 16 | At Macmillan College we select only because we are overwhelmed by applications and by selection we can thus ensure that we do have a fully comprehensive intake drawn from all parts of our catchment area . |
| 17 | We do have a fully expensed training course at head office . |
| 18 | Fishes , however , do have a highly developed sense of smell , as do many marine invertebrates . |
| 19 | The situation there is that the , there 're , if you have double rooms as doubles then there would be , we do have a relatively low occupancy but the committee had decided to move towards double rooms being used as single occupancy only and on the , I 've got the latest figures for the first of January in front of me just by ch really just by chance |
| 20 | They do have a much greater responsibility . |
| 21 | ‘ I think you do have a totally different approach to life than before . |
| 22 | I really do have a very good excuse . ’ |
| 23 | That 's to say , they do have a very dangerous crowd , they just think they 're Abu Nidal . |
| 24 | ‘ Dr Rafaelo , you do have a very bad habit of listening at doors to private conversations . ’ |
| 25 | We do have a very large proportion of holiday accommodation and second homes , which are concentrated in certain parts of the county . |
| 26 | There seems to be agreement that corporate criminals can be deterred because their crimes are essentially instrumental , being outcomes of a fine balance between perceived costs and rewards , and they have no emotional commitment to them , whereas they do have a very high stake in conformity and respectability . |
| 27 | Jan Marsh and Trevor Loomis have found seven National Trust houses where we do have a very clear idea of how women lived and thought . |
| 28 | True , the industrial economies still account for 76% of world exports and their currencies dominate international financial markets — so the economic policies of the old industrial giants do have a disproportionately large influence on the world economy as a whole . |
| 29 | Erm it does have a rather good section on the congress system . |
| 30 | ‘ Slow but steady — slow , because the presence of what the Admiral calls your friend the timing device does have a rather inhibitory effect and we 're probably taking some quite needless precautions as far as acoustic levels are concerned . |