Example sentences of "it [vb past] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drink never loosened his tongue , though it did have an effect on his sizable nose which , like Bardolph 's , was a beacon in the dark . |
| 2 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It did have its funny side as well . |
| 5 | Worse still , the bull fiddle possessed no appreciable volume , and what volume it did have was easily submerged by thronging crowds of noisy dance-goers . |
| 6 | It did have a central theme to it , but we 're taking more time over the next one . |
| 7 | Big Flame did n't have permanent leaders , but it did have superstars . |
| 8 | The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath . |
| 9 | Its bed and furniture were entirely homely , however , and perhaps not as dainty as the elegant young French lady might like , but it did have a nice view of the hustle and bustle of Newington Butts , and Mrs Beavis always reckoned that if you could see life going on from your window , you could n't grumble too much about not having dainty furniture . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That indeed was the case , with the appearance of another loose intergovernmental structure , a Conference of European Ministers of Transport , which could only suggest and advise — though it did have some success in persuading ten states to sign a convention on cooperation and coordination of their rail networks in 1953 . |
| 12 | Sequoia Systems Inc is joining the rush to fit out Unix systems with all the aids and facilities that mainframe users take for granted , and reckons that it is one up on its competitors with software that continuously monitors all the functions of a computer system and immediately notifies operators of problems in operations or applications — even if it did have to go out-of-house to get it . |
| 13 | Granted this helped the swelling of the coffers of the tobacco company that was the sponsor , but it did have a tremendous evangelical effect for the game , proselytising many . |
| 14 | The court recognised that it did have a discretion under the Rules of the Supreme Court to allow service to stand despite the failure to comply with the relevant Rules , but declined to do so on the facts ; it would take ‘ a very strong case ’ , for example express representation by the defendant that the method of service adopted was lawful , before the discretion would be exercised . |
| 15 | I think it did have a lot to do with the status that being different conferred , for in spite of the austerity of our childhood , we believed that we were better than other people , the food we ate being a mark of this , because our mother told us so — so successfully that even now I have to work hard at actually seeing the deprivations . |
| 16 | The settlement connects with other forms of extension in that it did have an educational aim , but , like Oxford House ( another settlement or " mission " set up in the East End in 1884 ) , it usefully illustrates new initiatives for the renewal of forms of leadership and patterns for social administration upon which the elevation of English largely depended , Barnett saw Toynbee Hall as the potential centre for an east London university ; in fact it became , as did the other settlements and extension classes , a centre for members of the middle class . |
| 17 | It did have , yes I , I mean it , it was n't that , but it was something you know that |
| 18 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 19 | What it did have in mind is not clear . |
| 20 | If it did have such a cause of action , then the court would have power to award interest from the moment it arose by virtue of section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 21 | No , but I 'll come onto some effects that it did have in a moment . |
| 22 | Actually I do n't think it did have quite such an impact . |
| 23 | It was n't much of a smile , but it did have a faintly superior tinge to it and Lydia began to feel better . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it did have important consequences within the scholarly study of antiquity itself . |
| 25 | It did have sentimental value ; her mother had given it to her for her twenty-first birthday . |
| 26 | But it did have an elegant shopping precinct , the first of its kind , and a city centre flanked by the grandeur of its old and new cathedrals . |
| 27 | They wrapped it up and gave it to her , and it did have a head like a baby . |
| 28 | The statement emphasised that the Black Sea Fleet , comprising some 45 warships and 300 smaller vessels , was not considered to be part of the strategic forces , although it did have nuclear capability . |
| 29 | On the other hand , it did have a sign saying ‘ bar-food ’ , and Loretta realized she was quite hungry . |
| 30 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |