Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , André was always a hit with the girls , and he did have a certain effeminate appeal and a wonderful way with words , but he lacked Piers 's vitality , the vibrant sexuality that seemed to smoulder away inside him . |
| 2 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 3 | Unlike Guillaume , Zborowski was unbusinesslike , and a poor book-keeper , but he did have a wonderful faith in Modigliani 's talent . |
| 4 | . It was a puzzle to me to think that any customers wanted any of these things in the alley he lived , but he did have a few visitors , because he dealt in antiques , he knew a great deal about them … |
| 5 | He did not imagine Randolph Henry Ash , his pen moving rapidly across the paper , but he did have the thought of the pads of the long-dead fingers which had held and folded these half-covered sheets , before preserving them in the book , instead of jettisoning them . |
| 6 | He did not feel the presence of the dead poet in the room , but he did have a vague excited sense that any of these containers — the desk , the trunks , the hat-boxes , might contain some treasure like the faded letters in his own breast-pocket . |
| 7 | The doctor had no idea what might be causing the red blotches , but he did have a suspicion that the other symptoms might have a common cause . |
| 8 | But he did have to endure the ordeal of being photographed between the bride and bridesmaid . |
| 9 | He had n't any sense , I thought , but he did have fear , which was almost as good a life preserver . |
| 10 | But he did have a long-established base on which to build — and that was the British class system . |
| 11 | He has had only sporadic , unskilled labour work since leaving school but he did have , for 18 months , a job as a taxi driver with a friend . |
| 12 | He has had only sporadic , unskilled labouring work since leaving school but he did have , for 18 months , a job as a taxi driver with a friend . |
| 13 | Unlike Hobhouse , he had no teleology , but he did have faith in an historical progression towards the universalisation of morals , towards a greater influence upon men of their consciences ( and thus of their own independently critical rationality ) , and towards a clearer distinction between individual and collective responsibilities ( evident in the steady separation of morals , religion and law ) . |
| 14 | Gloucester could not rival Herbert 's local connections , but he did have the status to make an acceptable figurehead and he seems to have put considerable energy into the role . |
| 15 | Robert Leeson ( 22nd January ) may be right in suggesting that Just William might not have wanted to be a Tory minister , but he did have parliamentary ambitions . |
| 16 | But he did have determination . |
| 17 | She was actually very fond of Dick , but he did have his moods . |
| 18 | ‘ Not now , that 's true , but he did have an older brother , who died nine years ago . ’ |
| 19 | General Mola was inferior in rank and had less prestige among the military , but he did have two factors in his favour : he was the director of the conspiracy and he was in command of all the rebel troops in the northern half of the country , thus " mirroring " Franco 's command in the south . |
| 20 | He is unlikely to have supervised personally the drawing up of every document — he had staff for that — but he did have the duty of dating the solemn privileges which were issued . |
| 21 | The subject had not arisen , but he did have qualms about Rosie , occasionally . |
| 22 | It was not possible to construct a satisfactory double blind challenge but he did have a positive open challenge to pure ethanol . |
| 23 | Gloucester could not rival Herbert 's local connections , but he did have the status to make an acceptable figurehead and he seems to have put considerable energy into the role . |
| 24 | We reminisced about Robinson 's batting , which was not exactly the best on the county circuit , but he did have one great moment when he put on 144 for the last wicket with Arnie Sidebottom against Glamorgan at Cardiff . |
| 25 | But he did have fancy thoughts sometimes , nor were they always wrong . |