Example sentences of "do have a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did have a very broad search , ’ adds Whittaker . |
| 2 | But they did have a very clear idea of how they wanted the house to look and resigned themselves to living with the mess while they tackled it room by room . |
| 3 | He did have a very hard time which we , as children , could not understand … they took care of Richard as you know but my mother also had to look after the children left in 2 Dan-y-bont , Pontrhydyfen , travelling there at least twice a week on two separate buses with Richard , a two-year-old , in tow . |
| 4 | Na er well of course I 'm seve seventy nine but I can still remember most of it and I did have a very bad time ! |
| 5 | And there were times indeed , I think , that the effect of the very strong resistance to public-expenditure cuts and then the promulgation of an alternative economic strategy , which I myself was much concerned with , did have a very considerable effect . |
| 6 | I really do have a very good excuse . ’ |
| 7 | That 's to say , they do have a very dangerous crowd , they just think they 're Abu Nidal . |
| 8 | ‘ Dr Rafaelo , you do have a very bad habit of listening at doors to private conversations . ’ |
| 9 | We do have a very large proportion of holiday accommodation and second homes , which are concentrated in certain parts of the county . |
| 10 | There seems to be agreement that corporate criminals can be deterred because their crimes are essentially instrumental , being outcomes of a fine balance between perceived costs and rewards , and they have no emotional commitment to them , whereas they do have a very high stake in conformity and respectability . |
| 11 | Jan Marsh and Trevor Loomis have found seven National Trust houses where we do have a very clear idea of how women lived and thought . |
| 12 | I 'm sure the minister does have a very good reason as to why these four statutory instruments are needed and I 'm sure both sides of the house recognise that they 're needed . |
| 13 | There , each of the three species does have a very different and highly distinctive pattern of markings . |