Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] did have [det] " in BNC.

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1 But there was still a problem about the label Education , and also that I did have such a very large chunk of air-time , 15 per cent of the Channel .
2 Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support .
3 I 'd forgotten , it was so long ago , that I did have some happy days among the bad ones . ’
4 This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council .
5 I mean if it is helpful and Mr and I did have this discussion in the pre-meeting that we had , er certainly if you wish to recommend that the d that the stars on the the diagram were to be changed er just simply to show one star instead of a route , then I for one would be quite happy with that .
6 And I did have some of the as well so .
7 But I do n't think I could cope on my own without my mum and dad even if I did have all that money .
8 and even if you think no I would n't really spend the money to make myself more beautiful , you think , oh maybe , if I really , if I did have that money would I do it ?
9 According to Aubrey , Madeleine was still unattached , even if she did have that army officer dancing attendance on her .
10 ‘ So , if you did have some , what do you think they 'd tell you ? ’
11 And we did have some jolly evenings .
12 But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger .
13 You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year .
14 If it did have such a cause of action , then the court would have power to award interest from the moment it arose by virtue of section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 .
15 But we did have this idea that the whole tribe went around together .
16 Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war .
17 That indeed was the case , with the appearance of another loose intergovernmental structure , a Conference of European Ministers of Transport , which could only suggest and advise — though it did have some success in persuading ten states to sign a convention on cooperation and coordination of their rail networks in 1953 .
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