Example sentences of "they do have a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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
5 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 .
6 The solution , therefore , was to make it look as though they did have a choice , but to ensure that they chose Franco .
7 And it went to seven months because they did have a downturn in the business so it pushed the quantities back a bit .
8 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 .
9 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 ?
10 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 .
11 ‘ These are not easy questions to resolve but I think that if it is possible , actually to speak to these characters in such a way that they feel that they are valued and that they do have a part to play in the community , then we are on the way to resolving questions of this sort .
12 There is no obvious Hershiser figures in the Giants ' pitching ranks this time , but in Clark they do have a man — like Gibson — in the mood to burn Oakland with the bat .
13 Well after extensive tests it can be revealed that they are human and they do have a heart .
14 These are of course easy to distinguish from idioms ; nonetheless , they do have a kind of semantic cohesion — the constituent elements are , to varying degrees , mutually selective .
15 The reason I cite these tales is that they do have a bearing on one another , albeit a tenuous .
16 Looks , of course , are n't everything , but they do have a bearing when it comes to choosing an instrument , and the Carlton 's sales figures may speak for themselves in the months to come .
17 David Preece scored the second-half goal that earned them their first win in seven games and , though they remain in the bottom three , they do have a chance of making the Premier League .
18 But even now , having gone through that process , they would not see men as the enemy , they feel that they do have a lot in common , for example , with maybe the conception of women organising in National Liberation struggles that was mentioned earlier .
19 These are not very common and , as previously suggested , feature more often in preparatory work than in the actual research , but they do have a place .
20 unc A rather more rapid method is to write ( 5 ) as unc For the simple reciprocation of a matrix A these methods hardly compete with pivotal condensation ; however , they do have a place in the parallel problem of solution of linear algebraic equations .
21 But they do have a gut feeling that abortion is a moral issue .
22 I would n't mind going to hear it if they do have a meeting
23 In fact , if they do have a complaint , it 's that they would probably like me to go back full time — which is very nice to know ! ’
24 Bath do not have a Willie Ofahengaue to launch those killer moves from the back row , but with Barnes , Guscott and Swift they do have a midfield and a right wing fully capable of cashing in on the Campese option .
25 Punch bag , they do have a punch bag .
26 If they do have a belief it is the ‘ self emancipation of the working class ’ — that the exploited sector of the global population recognise their material conditions and take control of the means of production through collective struggle .
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