Example sentences of "did 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 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 .
13 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 !
14 I wanted to tell him that the proletariat of the suburbs did have strong class feeling .
15 But he did have fancy thoughts sometimes , nor were they always wrong .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 We think you did have extra coupons when you got married .
23 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 .
24 In India , Pakistan and East Africa the elders of a family ( in-laws , husbands , older cousins , uncles and aunts ) did have real power .
25 ‘ By the Lord , Jimmie , you always did have rose-edged ambitions , but like sunsets they fade . ’
26 and even if you think no I would n't really spend the money to make myself more beautiful , you think , oh maybe , if I really , if I did have that money would I do it ?
27 According to Aubrey , Madeleine was still unattached , even if she did have that army officer dancing attendance on her .
28 She did have that allergy in her eyes .
29 Yeah , we did have that quote , but there were other things on it .
30 ‘ Oh , I remember now , ’ she said : ‘ I did have one dream , just as I was waking up .
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