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 .
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