Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb past] have " in BNC.

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1 In the one that we should n't have had which we did have .
2 ‘ 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 ’ .
3 but not impulsively , but the , what I did have a concern about and I think we 'll have to be a bit careful about this as we go forward is that , the audio description project is about audio description , youth and funding is about volunteers
4 ’ I thought that 's what I did have — helping you with the shopping and the boy .
5 He judged her worthy of finer clothes , for what she did have on she wore with an air .
6 But what she did have was an eye and an ear and a view about promotion right from the beginning .
7 We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it .
8 What we did have difficulty was er with an odd occasion where a man was on the verge of being dismissed .
9 No you have to get a bucket of water and flush it with a bucket , what we did have on the sink in the brew house was a a , a about a couple of foot square and on the top of that was an old pump handle , well that water used to drain all the rainwater from the roof all rainwater from the roof used to drain into that well that was sunk in the brewers , so that we could pump water out of the little well , so that we could have soft water for doing the washing , rainwater , otherwise it meant going to the standpipe in the , out in the yard to get your water for washing .
10 ‘ So I started by reviewing what they did have .
11 What they did have in common , was a relatively poor organizational base among eligible electors and financial dependence on the leaders of industry and finance .
12 What they did have was the word ‘ Leeds ’ : often the only English word they knew , passed on to them by relatives who had been early immigrants .
13 ‘ Apparently it 's coming to an end , ’ said Julia , ‘ and the commissioners have found that a great many of the Italians they tried to reward for what they did have refused to take any money at all .
14 What they did have to have was er an official company or order
15 He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect .
16 What it did have in mind is not clear .
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