Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] 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 | ’ What I do have a need for , your Lordship , is your reason for contacting me . ’ |
| 5 | He judged her worthy of finer clothes , for what she did have on she wore with an air . |
| 6 | But what she did have was an eye and an ear and a view about promotion right from the beginning . |
| 7 | What you do have to understand is what motivates a customer to buy a small green apple as opposed to a large red one . |
| 8 | What you do have on the furthest extent of Nottingham , are the council estates of Rise Park , Bestwood Park , and Top Valley in the North . |
| 9 | What you do have to be is neat , your labelling is in pen , your drawing is in ? |
| 10 | You do n't have to tell them your business , but what you do have to say is , I 've got an alarm system , an audible system , so bells only , if you hear it going off can you ring the home station ? |
| 11 | Though over the years , from Southend to Tyneside and the Government 's own Property Services Agency , there 's all too much evidence that this is exactly what we do have . |
| 12 | What we do have , however , is one supreme foundation principle . |
| 13 | What we do have is a high design content . |
| 14 | What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships . |
| 15 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What we did have difficulty was er with an odd occasion where a man was on the verge of being dismissed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ So I started by reviewing what they did have . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | What they did have to have was er an official company or order |
| 24 | What they do have , though , is a still-blossoming talent and an evident euphoric thrill of being on the stage . |
| 25 | Victor and his parents have precious little but what they do have is — us ! |
| 26 | What they do have in common is that in all cases industry will be looking for the location where it can make the best profit . |
| 27 | What he does have , though , is a fearsome grip on the band which looks to me like a dictatorship and which he maintains is just the way things have worked out . |
| 28 | What he does have is all packed away inside his leotard — destined to be cult items . |
| 29 | So , to get the comparisons over with , and leaving musical considerations aside , what he does have in common with Rattle is charm . |
| 30 | 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 . |