Example sentences of "do have " in BNC.

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1 Julie meant everything to me , all of our plans , all of the things we were going to do have been surgically removed .
2 Nonetheless , practically everything we set out to do have been achieved , including the next magazine and the annual report .
3 Is it still SWEG policy not to issue a membership list : I am in total sympathy re problem(s) of misuse , but other groups I belong to do have lists e.g. IPR , BAIE , ESBW , EICG .
4 I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle .
5 well we 've got some sort of sorting out and thinking to do have n't we ?
6 As for me , the things I expect a computer to do have advanced somewhat .
7 Er , what kind of checks to do have , do you have to keep on that ?
8 We got other things to do have n't we ?
9 Cos you 've got sewing to do have n't you ?
10 Well you 've had plenty to do have n't you Mark ?
11 Oh hang on , you 've got some to do have n't you ?
12 What would you like to do have a nice sandwich for lunch and then later on have something proper .
13 Did you erm oh you 've still got your job description to do have n't you ?
14 Well we 've all got things that we do n't want to do have n't we ?
15 No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles .
16 Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself .
17 He did have a red MG .
18 The sparseness of fur did have one advantage — no mass of hairs to obscure the charming pose .
19 Mrs Thatcher said economic sanctions did have the effect of depressing an economy and depriving people of jobs , but rarely if ever had the desired political effect .
20 Mr Scrivener said that while the council did have the right to take out interest-rate swaps for debt management , other types of transaction were ultra vires .
21 He did have an alternative , he could have let the pound drop lower . ’
22 But the party did have the sense to remove the figures from a policy commitment to halve the UK population .
23 Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) .
24 ‘ I did have a copy of Boost , a monthly magazine published from late 1942 for 212 ( Catalina ) Squadron based at Korangi , south of Karachi .
25 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 .
26 He did have the advantage , however , of pursuing a single specific goal — that of taking the company through privatisation .
27 In India , Pakistan and East Africa the elders of a family ( in-laws , husbands , older cousins , uncles and aunts ) did have real power .
28 He was n't even the first to tell Ferrari he 'd be back one day with a car to beat him , but the laconic Texan did have a more-than-usually colourful way of putting it .
29 To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein .
30 Charles and Diana may not have had many interests in common when they first met , but one that they did have , and have enjoyed together throughout their marriage , is skiing .
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