Example sentences of "we did 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 . |