Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Can we just mention there that we did have a problem at the weekend with the paper banks again . |
| 62 | Well we did have a look but we have n't found it anywhere . |
| 63 | 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 . |
| 64 | We did have a mole catcher in the glen , but he was n't the regular , he just occasionally . |
| 65 | We did have a couple of suicides , but I soon put a stop to that . |
| 66 | We did have a telephone in the house . |
| 67 | But the t we did have a telephone to the post office when it first came . |
| 68 | so at one time the theory is we our , we did have a tail |
| 69 | we did have a bit |
| 70 | But we did have a church near us , and that church had a school . |
| 71 | we did have a winner at the weekend … young chap by the name of Nigel Mansell driving for the Oxfordshire based Williams team went and won the South African Grand Prix |
| 72 | But we did have a lot of fun . ’ |
| 73 | I 'm gon na pull out the minutes cos we did have a meeting , we had a meeting at which was present and that 's how we defined it |
| 74 | Well we did have a letter off erm Good Neighbours through the lady who also came to sing , cos I know her |
| 75 | 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 . |
| 76 | However this radicalization in land policy had allowed them to defeat the K M T and essentially led them to get into power so one has elements of pragmatism in their ideology and that how that you 've got to realize that the Communist Party was in a very precarious situation throughout these years , that how that although they did have a kind of er policy in th there ultimate aim of socialism , and although it seare appeared s quite strange that they were almost promoting capitalism , that how that their aim during this period was to eliminate feudalism which was the s and then to establish capitalism in order that socialism could take place . |
| 77 | 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 . |
| 78 | 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 |
| 79 | That 's right , I do n't think they did have a chance first half and we created maybe eight or nine chances , you know , really good clear chances and really we need to be putting more that one away and we need to kill the game off first half when we 're so superior in that sort of performance , you know . |
| 80 | The solution , therefore , was to make it look as though they did have a choice , but to ensure that they chose Franco . |
| 81 | And it went to seven months because they did have a downturn in the business so it pushed the quantities back a bit . |
| 82 | The British , it was agreed by all , on this occasion , were men of justice despite their many other faults , only they did have a habit of making tidy things untidy by over-insistence on bureaucratic process . |
| 83 | I ca n't , I ca n't remember precisely even so I think it , it , it 's Walsall 's loss that they have n't got an airport any more , it , it 's purely but erm they , they did have a lot of s divided up into a lot of sports fields at one time did n't they but the people who 've , is it the M E B who control those buildings now ? |
| 84 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 85 | But if it could be said that he did have a weakness for something , it was for Ireland and the Irish . |
| 86 | He did have a spirit . |
| 87 | She told herself she did not care about the fact that he was already married but was equally scarred by the knowledge that he did have a wife . |
| 88 | As Hollywood history has shown , Curtis recognized that he did have a drug problem when , in 1984 , he admitted himself into the Betty Ford Alcoholic and Drugs Treatment Center for treatment for his drug abuse and alcoholism . |
| 89 | He did have a sister but he thought that , poor though his family was , it would not be very keen on her marrying a beggar . |
| 90 | 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 . |