Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] have " in BNC.

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1 The British , it was agreed by all , on this occasion , were men of justice despite their many other faults , only they did have a habit of making tidy things untidy by over-insistence on bureaucratic process .
2 Well they did have when I bought them .
3 Surely they did have one last year , did n't they their outing .
4 It was a weird , time , with white rastas , art-school escapees , old rockers and punk fanzine costermongers coming together to discover that maybe they did have something in common after all .
5 Yet they did have an important influence on the evolution of bargaining structure and the characteristic form which it assumed .
6 Some of the children in our study felt desperately disappointed that they had not been adopted , and yet they did have a home which would continue to be available to them in their adult life and had found a kind of loving , though perhaps not the all-accepting , all-loving parent of their dreams .
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