Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may not have been the tallest , nor the most athletic — Mick Doyle reckoned I only ever jumped from my shoulders up — but what I did have was the most effective arse in world rugby ’ . |
| 2 | but not impulsively , but the , what I did have a concern about and I think we 'll have to be a bit careful about this as we go forward is that , the audio description project is about audio description , youth and funding is about volunteers |
| 3 | ’ I thought that 's what I did have — helping you with the shopping and the boy . |
| 4 | He judged her worthy of finer clothes , for what she did have on she wore with an air . |
| 5 | But what she did have was an eye and an ear and a view about promotion right from the beginning . |
| 6 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 7 | What we did have difficulty was er with an odd occasion where a man was on the verge of being dismissed . |
| 8 | No you have to get a bucket of water and flush it with a bucket , what we did have on the sink in the brew house was a a , a about a couple of foot square and on the top of that was an old pump handle , well that water used to drain all the rainwater from the roof all rainwater from the roof used to drain into that well that was sunk in the brewers , so that we could pump water out of the little well , so that we could have soft water for doing the washing , rainwater , otherwise it meant going to the standpipe in the , out in the yard to get your water for washing . |
| 9 | ‘ So I started by reviewing what they did have . |
| 10 | What they did have in common , was a relatively poor organizational base among eligible electors and financial dependence on the leaders of industry and finance . |
| 11 | What they did have was the word ‘ Leeds ’ : often the only English word they knew , passed on to them by relatives who had been early immigrants . |
| 12 | ‘ Apparently it 's coming to an end , ’ said Julia , ‘ and the commissioners have found that a great many of the Italians they tried to reward for what they did have refused to take any money at all . |
| 13 | What they did have to have was er an official company or order |
| 14 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 15 | What it did have in mind is not clear . |