Example sentences of "[conj] i did have " in BNC.

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1 That I did had been a 45 year fantasy come true . ’
2 But there was still a problem about the label Education , and also that I did have such a very large chunk of air-time , 15 per cent of the Channel .
3 Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support .
4 As irony would have it , however , an examiner that I did have passed on to Rowse the information that , in the paper on Political Institutions , in which I did badly , I had vigorously attacked Rowse 's pamphlet on ‘ The Question of the House of Lords ’ .
5 ‘ Wish that I did have the courage to kiss you , querida , ’ he rasped , ‘ but I have standards and a level of decency to live up to and they are more important to me than a moment of weakness to prove that I am immune to you . ’
6 I 'd forgotten , it was so long ago , that I did have some happy days among the bad ones . ’
7 that I did have a brain and I was capable of doing things even though it was
8 David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going .
9 And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again .
10 Using full rudder at the stall did induce a more rapid wing drop , and I did have the feeling that had we pursued it we might induce a spin , but this does not , however , detract from the aircraft 's very acceptable slow speed handling characteristics .
11 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 !
12 And I did have some of the as well so .
13 I mean if it is helpful and Mr and I did have this discussion in the pre-meeting that we had , er certainly if you wish to recommend that the d that the stars on the the diagram were to be changed er just simply to show one star instead of a route , then I for one would be quite happy with that .
14 Er , and I did have er , somebody who came up about a year ago , and , and said do you talk to all your clients like this , and I said no , no it 's only at Tarmac .
15 I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys
16 But I do n't think I could cope on my own without my mum and dad even if I did have all that money .
17 And yet , if I did have a showdown now , what good would it do ?
18 I ai n't got ten shillings , and if I did have I 'd give it to the kids .
19 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 ?
20 So when I was actually pregnant , although it would be fairer on me and the baby and everybody concerned if I did have an abortion , he made me know that he did n't really want me to have one .
21 If I did have a siesta it was always a very short one .
22 And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head .
23 ‘ 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 ? ’
24 And , as you can see , if I did have a m a mutant gene that promoted reproductive success by a hundred percent what natural selection means , enhanced reproductive success . ?
25 After all , if I did have a fiancé tucked away , that would change the situation rather dramatically .
26 Well unfortunately if , if I did have a delivery of coal it would come in through the other entrance .
27 if , if I was really stuck and I had the , the tools , which , I would n't have you see , but if I did have the tools there , then yeah I would be able to do it cos I 've seen Martin doing it quite a few times , so
28 Cos I did have a word with Steve on Friday and said have you seen Jerry and and has he mentioned this
29 But I did have to worry about whether we were going to have the cash flow in ten years ' time to make sure that the parts can be paid for so the chap on the shop floor can stick the thing together .
30 I 'd come out on the simple camera-fetching errand without the complete zipped pouch of gadgets but I did have with me the belt holding my knife and the multi-purpose survival tool , and on the back of that tool there was a mirror .
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