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

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1 We did have separate supplies in station .
2 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 .
3 He did have good words to say for its menfolk ; ‘ … sturdy and bold , honest and sagacious ’ .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 ‘ I did have other priorities . ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 ‘ You always did have strange ideas . ’
11 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 .
12 I wanted to tell him that the proletariat of the suburbs did have strong class feeling .
13 But he did have fancy thoughts sometimes , nor were they always wrong .
14 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 .
15 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 .
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 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 .
18 We think you did have extra coupons when you got married .
19 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 .
20 In India , Pakistan and East Africa the elders of a family ( in-laws , husbands , older cousins , uncles and aunts ) did have real power .
21 ‘ By the Lord , Jimmie , you always did have rose-edged ambitions , but like sunsets they fade . ’
22 ‘ He did have talking eyes . ’
23 Though our screening method is semiquantitative , the seven unconfirmed cases did have creatine kinase values lower than those which were subsequently confirmed as increased on a later venous sample .
24 He did have white mice .
25 Crusaders did have tough luck seconds before the final whistle when a desperation drive by Jim Gardiner bounced off the crossbar .
26 It did have sentimental value ; her mother had given it to her for her twenty-first birthday .
27 The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath .
28 He did have red hair and he had certainly been interested in the whole area down by the river walk .
29 They found that more than half their sample did have previous admissions within the preceding year .
30 Robert Leeson ( 22nd January ) may be right in suggesting that Just William might not have wanted to be a Tory minister , but he did have parliamentary ambitions .
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