Example sentences of "he do have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it could be said that he did have a weakness for something , it was for Ireland and the Irish . |
| 2 | He did have a spirit . |
| 3 | She told herself she did not care about the fact that he was already married but was equally scarred by the knowledge that he did have a wife . |
| 4 | As Hollywood history has shown , Curtis recognized that he did have a drug problem when , in 1984 , he admitted himself into the Betty Ford Alcoholic and Drugs Treatment Center for treatment for his drug abuse and alcoholism . |
| 5 | He did have a sister but he thought that , poor though his family was , it would not be very keen on her marrying a beggar . |
| 6 | Ben Braithwaite , who could never stand being told what to do , particularly by the landlord of a common tavern , even if he did have a diamond on his swarthy hand and his name was Goldsborough , had spoken sharply . |
| 7 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 8 | Maybe he did have a bit of something — cunning , animal cunning . |
| 9 | Though he did have a bit of a tan , unlike most of the men over here . |
| 10 | So he did have a problem then ? |
| 11 | After all , he did have a pond consisting of Charlie 's last Chinese meal steaming in his crotch . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , he did have a key , and he still has it . |
| 13 | He did have a habit of railroading her into things , but she knew she would be crazy to refuse . |
| 14 | Well he 's a ministerial servant at last he was just sitting there and nothing you know for years since I 've came into the truth , he was , he was n't doing at all nothing and then lately erm , because he did , he did have a business and then he had er some pigeons er racing pigeons and all he was all involved more in making money and er you know , and then gradually he 's got rid of er , of the things that will actually er took a lot of his time , so he spent a lot of time with his family and with in the |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 17 | He did have a father — I mean , he is n't Jesus Christ . |
| 18 | He did have a job in the Foreign Literature Publishing House , but he sought out any visitors from London , eager for gossip , and frequently talked about returning . |
| 19 | He did have a kidney weakness , but although he was no longer as trim and fit as before he was still an impressive man . |
| 20 | A little gig It was n't a gig either , he did have a gig but he had this thing , a sort of long shaped er What would you call it ? |
| 21 | Certainly it was not a vehicle for a programme of socialist reform such as Cipriani had in mind , even if he did have a seat on its Legislative Council . |
| 22 | However he did have a lot of good things to saya bout Leeds when we were winning the title . |
| 23 | If he actually put his foot down and said , ‘ No , I think that 's ridiculous ’ , everyone shut up and listened , and I feel that this was the first time that he realised that he did have the powers of leadership , not only on stage but also off stage . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He did have the advantage , however , of pursuing a single specific goal — that of taking the company through privatisation . |
| 26 | He did have the ambition to do more serious work , as he had in Saint Joan and he had done in those early days in rep , but suddenly , he had got sucked into a formula that became a very comfortable rut indeed and , surprisingly for those who thought they knew him well , he did n't want to find a way out . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |