Example sentences of "but they [vb past] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they did have a drastic effect . |
| 2 | But they did have a very clear idea of how they wanted the house to look and resigned themselves to living with the mess while they tackled it room by room . |
| 3 | Until the second and third quarters of the seventeenth century not all bodies were buried in coffins ; but they did have shrouds . |
| 4 | The restored Stuarts did not have to deal with any difficulty of this sort but they did have a general problem of making sure that the King 's authority was accepted . |
| 5 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
| 6 | The Location of Offices Bureau showed the way in South-East England ; distances moved from central London were often modest but they did have the effect of prising population outward . |
| 7 | The recommendations of the Commission were not entirely adopted , but they did have an impact on the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act 1950 , which provided for a federal budget based on the functions and activities of the government . |
| 8 | Not that the Russians were much better , but they did have a few of the new German FW190S which Hitler had promised to Stalin as a goodwill gesture over the Poland deal . |
| 9 | But they did have a distinct legal life . |
| 10 | Yes , yes , yeah , but they did have civilians working there but I do n't know where they used to ferry the bombs out to but I do believe they used to carry detonators and everything down there you know . |
| 11 | They managed to get some ones on the sea , but they did have a try erm a lot of them come up with the erm barking up the wrong tree said the dog , you know , things like that with a bit of help . |
| 12 | But it 's been marvellous really , but they did have snow last weekend , did you have any in |