Example sentences of "[pers pn] did have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I did have one idea , ’ Dougal said . |
2 | ‘ Oh , I remember now , ’ she said : ‘ I did have one dream , just as I was waking up . |
3 | 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 ? |
4 | I did have two minutes to see A do his ladder climb , and T's climbing feat . |
5 | ‘ I did have other priorities . ’ |
6 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
7 | And then , as the job came up with Social Services , and I joined it , I did have some reservations , because I felt that maybe people would see me as sort of having deserted them and joined them , you know , er brilliant movie ? |
8 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ Because I became a sister so young , I suppose I did have high expectations of myself . |
11 | Well , I did have running water ; |
12 | 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 . |
13 | I did have three commendations over the thirty years — three ten bobs ! |
14 | We think you did have extra coupons when you got married . |
15 | Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously . |
16 | She was n't going to give her smiles away — not till she 'd fixed her position , and certainly not to an ugly pock-marked thing like Miss Phoebe with her beaky nose and whiskery chin … though she did have nice eyes . |
17 | According to Aubrey , Madeleine was still unattached , even if she did have that army officer dancing attendance on her . |
18 | She did have that allergy in her eyes . |
19 | And er what was I going to tell you , I told you about , I talked about we had nine pawnbroker 's shops , I did n't did I , but that we did have nine pawnbroker shops in Ipswich . |
20 | We did have separate supplies in station . |
21 | Yeah , we did have that quote , but there were other things on it . |
22 | Er we did have one person who was in her early twenties but er she gave it up . |
23 | Still waiting for a lot of the reports to come in , but we did have one winner on Guess the Scores this afternoon . |
24 | Oh yes , we did , we did have one baby , yes , we did , in the er in the home . |
25 | He says we did have several concerns and we suggested some stringent conditions . |
26 | But still , we did have several holidays together and I had assumed that one day we would get married . |
27 | But we did have this idea that the whole tribe went around together . |
28 | We did have this problem before but we started earlier did n't we ? |
29 | Yes Chairman , we we did have this debate in er budget review as I remember it . |
30 | In spite of our happy experiences with SBA , the electronic throttle and the electronic linkage , we did have some problems with the Same 's performance monitor . |