Example sentences of "[vb past] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You did have a crush of fans in your dressing-room , ’ said Daisy , doing her best .
2 She did have a crush on Dr Russell , of course .
3 ‘ Because I did have a crush on you !
4 We did have a mole catcher in the glen , but he was n't the regular , he just occasionally .
5 Yes , so they had did have a variety of different things you you could er be
6 I was not a skilful boxer but I did have a knock-out punch , which connected early in the first round and won me the fight .
7 Ben Braithwaite , who could never stand being told what to do , particularly by the landlord of a common tavern , even if he did have a diamond on his swarthy hand and his name was Goldsborough , had spoken sharply .
8 Fen was right — she did have a temper to match her hair .
9 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 .
10 And I , I actually tend to subscribe to the view , you know , that if we did have a surgery in it would be a non-event .
11 Yet I did have a row with Arthur Calder-Marshall , so it gave me a pang when I heard that he had died last week .
12 A pity she really did have a cold on the morning she woke up and used her inhaler , the morning after I 'd taken it out of her hand-bag and added my little cocktail .
13 She says no you 've just got a very infect on your chest , but , I did have a cold that night , yeah sneeze
14 Zborowski did have a buyer for the drawings in Lucien Descaves , the brother of the Police Commissioner who bought them up by the batch .
15 I only y well you see the Romans did have a word you know they had a phrase , have you heard about that Roman phrase ?
16 Cos I did have a word with Steve on Friday and said have you seen Jerry and and has he mentioned this
17 But we did have a church near us , and that church had a school .
18 And , as I met her eyes , I did have a memory of something , although I could n't have said what .
19 No it 's not entirely true cos we did have a budget for overtime
20 And she did have a responsibility to her students .
21 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
22 If someone had the right thought , that the play did begin there at eight , then their thought did have a content that was true , but that content was not identical with the actual state of affairs .
23 ‘ I did have a shower — but what 's the use of putting dirty clothes on a clean body ? ’
24 Some of the children in our study felt desperately disappointed that they had not been adopted , and yet they did have a home which would continue to be available to them in their adult life and had found a kind of loving , though perhaps not the all-accepting , all-loving parent of their dreams .
25 Perhaps because I do n't touch-type I did have a problem .
26 Can we just mention there that we did have a problem at the weekend with the paper banks again .
27 So he did have a problem then ?
28 Erm the point I made to them , that everybody round that table , if they did have a problem that they thought was urgent , they should get on the phone to the , you know , Steve and
29 Roman law never did have a doctrine that trusts should be set up by imperative words .
30 ‘ Anyway , if I did have a village lass dying to do my cooking , do n't you think she might find you a bit off-putting ? ’
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