Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] did have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the failings of the course I did have an excellent time and was not put off continuing with chemistry . |
| 2 | You actually make up a structure like this tetraneedle carbon we did have another one but er , obviously there 's some students have erm decided to do something different with the er things that 's all that 's left ! |
| 3 | He was vaguely surprised that what sense of loss he did have seemed to be connected in some way with Cyprus . |
| 4 | After the war he also confessed to me that his eyesight was very bad and he would not have passed any normal eye test that we used in the RAF , hut he did have contact lenses . |
| 5 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 6 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 7 | Certainly the joy had gone out of it , and the part-time teaching job she did had proved too difficult to cope with just now . |
| 8 | Although he has spent most of his working life in academia he did have an eight- year stint , from 1963 , in industrial research . |
| 9 | Of course we did have gangs , as do as other places : London , Birmingham , Manchester , Liverpool , Cardiff , etc . |
| 10 | But even but even in that case we did have er did have a case with a young a youngish lad who his accountant had written it |
| 11 | Well you 've got some colour at least this morning you did have . |
| 12 | Worse still , the bull fiddle possessed no appreciable volume , and what volume it did have was easily submerged by thronging crowds of noisy dance-goers . |
| 13 | What little money he did have was spent on a record selected with extreme care which became , to his way of thinking , a possession close to his heart . |
| 14 | On Golding 's island there was mounting tension because although the island was almost paradise it did have its problems . |
| 15 | The man she saw on the other side was in his late thirties , his hair receding slightly , but what hair he did have was thick and lustrous and reached the collar of his shirt . |
| 16 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 17 | And erm I , when I was in , in hospital we did have triplets two of those lived alright though . |
| 18 | It is n't until ah th , the only time we did have a smashing journey , we went with erm oh what 's , what 's the name of a local firm from Plymouth ? |
| 19 | I ca n't help but wonder why on earth they did have a different strip for the World Cup . |
| 20 | Full employment would never have occupied the attention of the government to the extent it did had there not been pressure to give both a commitment and some explanation of how it would be honoured . |
| 21 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |