Example sentences of "we do have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 2 | My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go . |
| 3 | Cos we did have a young man I say young man , he was in his early twenties , he used to do all that , and he left and they never replaced him ! |
| 4 | Very quick it was but we did have a nice bath did n't |
| 5 | Yeah we did have a good afternoon . |
| 6 | It is n't until ah th , the only time we did have a smashing journey , we went with erm oh what 's , what 's the name of a local firm from Plymouth ? |
| 7 | There 's many factors , many factors , and I 'd like to pay congratulations to Councillor I think it was , or the member certainly that came to the Economic er Sub-committee that discussed the European report back because there we did have a proper discussion about the value of those trips . |
| 8 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 9 | I grew up in an area that did n't have any live theatre to speak of , but we did have a local cinema house , and I was just in awe of this thing called the cinema . |
| 10 | We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire . |
| 11 | Now we did have a little bit of that , I would say er leave it leave it till you 've got the other stuff pretty well sorted out . |
| 12 | Mind you , we did have a little exotica in our small North Harrow branch [ apart from Molly , Betty etc. at the Christmas party ] ; there was Swiss Knorr 's French Onion soup for the daring housewife , and if a customer really wanted to impress her dinner guests , then we had small tins of pâté de fois gras . |
| 13 | We did n't have an explosion but we did have a big fire . |
| 14 | It 's interesting to note that actually now we 've since made that decision the residual has as I 've said come down to nine four seven , so if we do have a new settlement of fourteen hundred we 're already ending up with a a higher level of proposed development for Greater York now , the nine seven would obviously be exceeded if we had a fourteen hundred new settlement within Greater York . |
| 15 | That 's the team of management that I , together with one or two others , built up from scratch at the beginning of the Liberal Democrats , and we now in Stockport have a highly successful erm m As I say , tier of management for training , for campaigning , for policy development in Stockport , and as you probably know we do have a good record of winning local council seats . |
| 16 | We do have a battery-powered TV but only see newspapers occasionally . |
| 17 | We do have a terrible problem for some reason , when you get to the end of a number , any number block , whether twenty , thirty , forty , and you get there was a big block there . |
| 18 | He must appreciate that we do have a mixed public-transport and roads programme . |
| 19 | I look forward to the day when we do have a regional tier of government , and erm , a very prominent local politician , not of my party , told me in confidence , that he believes that erm , there will be a regional tier of government sooner or later , if only to react to the pressures from Europe . |
| 20 | So what should we conclude about our own system on the well we do have a representative democracy here , it 's very unlike Mill 's recommended scheme . |
| 21 | Well if you have a bath in the morning we have we have we have If I 've got it here I have n't got one here , but we do have a refreshing shower gel . |
| 22 | We do have a rolled joint in a pocket of a jacket but neither Lucker or I acknowledge it . |
| 23 | We do have a small number who come to us to do primary training , but it 's erm it 's one group only , and it 's always been a rather special group . |
| 24 | So that we do have a integrated assessment process . |
| 25 | but in the very unlikely , very unlikely er position whereby Norfolk are absolutely adamantly oppose our proposals then as Mr said it 's very difficult for us to build in , in neighbouring authority , there is however one procedure left to us and that of course will be for us to meet in private act of Parliament , well that is er almost unthinkable , but we do have a final resort to that with a , in many ways the problems in Brandon have to be resolved by , by doing a bypass and if in the end we have to do that I 'm sure that |
| 26 | We do have a double lesson after dinner which we could continue this . |
| 27 | However , independently of machines , we do have a natural time sense . |
| 28 | We do not get paid but we do have a free hack or lesson once a month . |
| 29 | Yes , we do have a supernatural gift of joy in Christ that is quite baffling for those outside Christianity . |
| 30 | In case we do have a hard winter however , it might be worth potting up a few and over-wintering them , if you have n't already saved some of last year 's generously produced and well-ripened seed . |