Example sentences of "do have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Let Spencer help you , my dear , my youngest son always did have a good head for figures . ’
32 Yeah he did have a good go at us through Shane .
33 In the end , I really did have a good time at College .
34 Actually I did have a good party once .
35 But , like any major retinue , his affinity did have a non-regional component .
36 But , like any major retinue , his affinity did have a non-regional component .
37 But when he had been speaking of Katherine 's children , her opinion of him had begun to change , it sounded as if he did have a genuine sympathy for them and their plight .
38 Despite her irritating affectations , she did have a genuine flair for divining quality in both literature and the visual arts .
39 Bunny says she 's quite an asset , even if she did have a disturbed schooling . ’
40 Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both .
41 But there were moments when he almost wished that what was happening between Maisie and Mr Malik did have a sexual connotation .
42 The contributing factor to the abandonment of the parish coffin in the seventeenth century was not the new and innovative trade of funeral furnishing — though that did have a profound effect on coffin types — but pestilence and the plague .
43 It therefore seems fairly certain that Swegen did have a Slavonic consort , probably for political reasons .
44 But they did have a drastic effect .
45 Unlike Guillaume , Zborowski was unbusinesslike , and a poor book-keeper , but he did have a wonderful faith in Modigliani 's talent .
46 Despite being easy trips they did have a valuable effect on crews .
47 However , the loss of income of the women studied did have a considerable impact upon them and their families .
48 We 're going to be looking at the contrast between that and places like Rye , which did have a chartered corporation , and we 're going to be looking at sort of trade , at the effects of epidemics on the town , erm and so on .
49 We 're going to be looking at erm the contrast between and places like Rye , which did have a chartered corporation , and we 're going to be looking at sort of trade , at the effects of epidemics on the town erm and so on .
50 On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that .
51 On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that .
52 Now we did have a little bit of that , I would say er leave it leave it till you 've got the other stuff pretty well sorted out .
53 Mind you , we did have a little exotica in our small North Harrow branch [ apart from Molly , Betty etc. at the Christmas party ] ; there was Swiss Knorr 's French Onion soup for the daring housewife , and if a customer really wanted to impress her dinner guests , then we had small tins of pâté de fois gras .
54 Public exposure on television and the continual attention of the rest of the media did have a marked effect on Hannah Hauxwell .
55 Nevertheless , the story did have a happy ending and it does emphasize an important point .
56 But he did have a long-established base on which to build — and that was the British class system .
57 I did n't really believe it at first , er , and then I received couple or more phone calls from er various people in the industry who er , who were aware of it and started to congratulate me , and then I realised that it was the truth , that er I really did have a big hit record once again with Blue Velvet .
58 We did n't have an explosion but we did have a big fire .
59 It is perfectly true that Blake did have a battery-operated radio in his cell which worked on medium and long waves only .
60 It rejected the idea that the associated companies which together did have a countrywide business were in any way relevant .
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