Example sentences of "i [vb past] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself . |
| 2 | ‘ I did have a copy of Boost , a monthly magazine published from late 1942 for 212 ( Catalina ) Squadron based at Korangi , south of Karachi . |
| 3 | But I did have to worry about whether we were going to have the cash flow in ten years ' time to make sure that the parts can be paid for so the chap on the shop floor can stick the thing together . |
| 4 | At the same time , I 'm elated and I can go back to the vices I did have , ’ said Mr Tyson . |
| 5 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 6 | I 'd come out on the simple camera-fetching errand without the complete zipped pouch of gadgets but I did have with me the belt holding my knife and the multi-purpose survival tool , and on the back of that tool there was a mirror . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I remember now , ’ she said : ‘ I did have one dream , just as I was waking up . |
| 8 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 9 | ‘ I did have a shower — but what 's the use of putting dirty clothes on a clean body ? ’ |
| 10 | I did have one fairly regular customer though , and it was amazing how we started off . |
| 11 | But there was still a problem about the label Education , and also that I did have such a very large chunk of air-time , 15 per cent of the Channel . |
| 12 | I did have three commendations over the thirty years — three ten bobs ! |
| 13 | And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again . |
| 14 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 15 | I did have a few lessons , with a lady down the dale called Annie Bayles . |
| 16 | I did have a sort of ‘ Les Paul ’ mentality about how to use a tape machine and that did run through everything I did with Fleetwood Mac . |
| 17 | Yet I did have a row with Arthur Calder-Marshall , so it gave me a pang when I heard that he had died last week . |
| 18 | ‘ I may not have been the tallest , nor the most athletic — Mick Doyle reckoned I only ever jumped from my shoulders up — but what I did have was the most effective arse in world rugby ’ . |
| 19 | But I do n't think I could cope on my own without my mum and dad even if I did have all that money . |
| 20 | But , yes , I did have problems with the dinner circuit . |
| 21 | ‘ I did have my right nipple pierced , but I had to keep taking it out for films , so it kept healing up . |
| 22 | And yet , if I did have a showdown now , what good would it do ? |
| 23 | He was right , I did have to stand on tiptoe and even then I could hardly reach . |
| 24 | I did have a chin tuck , and the lady who worked on the book with me said , ‘ Now , Elizabeth , you know we 're going to be together for months and we have to be absolutely honest with each other . |
| 25 | Actually I did have a good party once . |
| 26 | I think I did have a need to speak about it , to share it . |
| 27 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 28 | I ai n't got ten shillings , and if I did have I 'd give it to the kids . |
| 29 | Er oh I did have one Polish lad who 's now left who used to go round looking for all the cans and he 'd then collect the ten p's ! |
| 30 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |