Example sentences of "do have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 2 | What we must do to have good skin is to cleanse , tone , and moisturize . |
| 3 | I had years in Latin America , the Far East , all over the place , and any time I came back to London , well , there was too much to do to have much time for somewhere like ffeatherstonehaugh 's , and anyway I was married by then and my wife would n't have approved . |
| 4 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
| 5 | The debate about what the WEA was and should be doing had particular point in 1953 , the year the government initiated its own enquiry into adult education . |
| 6 | Thus to love or hate you , it may not be enough that your actions in your own interests make all the difference between success and failure for my highest hopes ; but it may be enough , even if nothing you do has any bearing on my projects , that in being drawn to or shrinking from your viewpoint I feel myself in touch with a personality of which the total pattern attracts or repels my own . |
| 7 | We did have separate supplies in station . |
| 8 | In the case of Camden and Islington , the authority did have good officers , and they did have the capacity to plan for a future district based provision . |
| 9 | He did have good words to say for its menfolk ; ‘ … sturdy and bold , honest and sagacious ’ . |
| 10 | However that may be , Cnut 's considerable generosity to Canterbury implies that he did have good relations with Æthelnoth , and this possibly made him the more determined to control the selection of his successor . |
| 11 | Norwich did have other chances , top scorer Mark Robins seeing a superb volley ruled out for offside — but most of those came towards the end of the game as desperate Oldham charged forward in a vain attempt to gain a point . |
| 12 | ‘ I did have other priorities . ’ |
| 13 | Although there was no other region which he dominated for the king , he did have other land which allowed him to exercise lordship on a more modest scale . |
| 14 | Although there was no other region which he dominated for the king , he did have other land which allowed him to exercise lordship on a more modest scale . |
| 15 | Leith vetoed the idea before he could voice it — though she had to admit that the idea of living and working in London did have tremendous appeal . |
| 16 | ‘ You always did have strange ideas . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At this dinner Faulkner claimed that only one in ten of Derry 's unemployed had any previous industrial experience ; the DUAC carried out a survey at the Bishop Street Labour Exchange which , they claimed , showed that 50 per cent of those interviewed did have such experience . |
| 19 | During the period 1961–73 , the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs was more likely to take out an enforcement order against a company that did not dominate the market , and was therefore in no position to affect the market price than one that did have such power ! |
| 20 | I wanted to tell him that the proletariat of the suburbs did have strong class feeling . |
| 21 | But he did have fancy thoughts sometimes , nor were they always wrong . |
| 22 | It was easy for Draper and White to mock the church fathers for their naiveté on matters of natural philosophy , forgetting that they did have higher concerns — forgetting , too , that their naiveté often reflected the pagan wisdom of their day . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | No , you picked up i I mean , I put that she recognized the gap between you know , the Russian ally to the Ger , I presume they did have Russian ally . |
| 25 | On the other hand , given the state of confusion in France and the fact that Thorez himself was in Moscow , it was not clear that the communist hierarchy was in a position to control communist maquisards , many of whom undoubtedly did have revolutionary aspirations . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal admitted that Ms Mountford did have exclusive possession of the property and that this might be important evidence in determining the intentions of the parties . |
| 28 | We think you did have extra coupons when you got married . |
| 29 | Second , in the case of the other seven indicator agencies , which did have central recording systems , visits were made by members of the research team who transcribed all of the required information on to prestructured forms . |
| 30 | In India , Pakistan and East Africa the elders of a family ( in-laws , husbands , older cousins , uncles and aunts ) did have real power . |