Example sentences of "did [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they did obviously have to ask him a lot more questions |
| 2 | He placed an old towel on the bathroom floor so that it would not get wet and he ensured that everything he needed was within reach so that he did not have to move from the spot and so drip water everywhere . |
| 3 | Weak and dizzy , Isabel slumped against the wall , wishing she did not have to move . |
| 4 | This was to the advantage of the young radicals ; like the leftists in the NILP , they were not hampered by tradition and did not have to placate their seniors before or after embracing heresy . |
| 5 | Firstly the package did not have to sell itself as it does in self service shopping , since the salesman himself acted to promote the products . |
| 6 | He also learned that he did not have to abandon completely his advertising skills . |
| 7 | They , by contrast , did not have to return the money they had received in compensation from the Republic . |
| 8 | True , barges and wagons alike were drawn by horses , but the latter did not have to negociate flights of locks ( the Rochdale Canal had ninety-two locks in only 33 miles ) , and until the advent of " fly boats " at the very end of the canal era there was no night working , with the canals open only from sunrise to sunset . |
| 9 | The fact that they were both half covered with the slimy grey Melanism-fluid did not have to matter . |
| 10 | She said people did not have to view the show if they were likely to find it offensive and while she found some photographs disturbing they should still be shown so people could form their own opinions . |
| 11 | Although the liquidators did not have to release the transcripts , this could result in an injustice to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 12 | Robert did not have to ask what it contained . |
| 13 | He did not have to contend with hundreds of tourists . |
| 14 | During the Second World War , the nation did not have to contend with a significant fifth column or with the equivalent of Vichy collaborators . |
| 15 | Earlier , in the PPOA race , Fine Lace led four out and Tarry did not have to press too hard to beat Lady Tiki . |
| 16 | Now we did not have to sit on the edge of the bed — a much wider bed — because there were two chairs , and I had my own shower and facilities for making coffee and snacks . |
| 17 | She climbed into the front seat , grateful that she did not have to sit beside Doreen , who would be sure to take the opportunity of snuggling up to Silas . |
| 18 | I was glad that my presence , my little money , meant he did not have to carry messages across Paris on his motor cycle . |
| 19 | Darwin did not have to overthrow a coherent and worked-out theory ; he had to persuade contemporaries that hypothesizing about origins was worthwhile . |
| 20 | The three birds in the ‘ opened ’ treatment that drunk the milk in the training session did not have to open the container . |
| 21 | While I do not dismiss the care and treatment I have received during those admissions , I did not have to spend many weeks in the ‘ old bins ’ to become aware of their shortcomings as therapeutic environments . |
| 22 | Having been involved in such proceedings since the Twenties he was now in fact finding them " a bit tedious " , and " Mr Eliot 's list " was invented for a section of the agenda so that he did not have to attend the entire meeting . |
| 23 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 24 | But when the first baiter led his teams on to an unploughed field he did not have to trouble his head about the width of the stetches : that had been fixed by long usage and probably appeared to him then as unalterable an aspect of the landscape as the roads and the hedges . |
| 25 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 26 | This may have always been the case with anthropology but we did not have to live with the results if our field was in Africa or Asia . |
| 27 | One did not have to oppose the war to oppose its consequences ; and there was nothing in the least unpatriotic about the demands for ‘ equality of sacrifice ’ . |
| 28 | and because the clinics were not attached to the main hospitals , there was no feedback from other disciplines in medicine , and , furthermore , the doctors working in the clinics did not have to undergo the vigorous selection procedures that were usual for hospital posts . |
| 29 | With 49.45 per cent of the vote , Herenton fell just short of an actual plurality , but did not have to undergo a runoff election as required in the past . |
| 30 | Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time . |