Example sentences of "[pron] had not have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She insisted on having wine with the meal , and as I had n't had a drink in a long time , it made me feel rather tipsy .
2 ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all .
3 I had n't had a benny for a few days actually
4 I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars .
5 I married Clive because Mummy told me he was suitable for me , and I had n't had a letter from Felipe for a long time …
6 I had n't had a shot in minutes .
7 I wondered why I had n't had the wit to take the starveling cat to Mother Joseph as soon as I knew that Nour might kill it .
8 ‘ I would n't have offered to help if I had n't had the experience necessary .
9 Cos I had n't had the gang then do you see , there was only two of us then .
10 It was looking a mess because I had n't had the heart to tidy it ; the sky outside had a yellow-grey sameness , without a hint of where the sun might be , and in that light the flowers on the dirty brown wallpaper looked sadder than ever .
11 I slumped to my knees , burdened by the hopeless regret that I had n't had the chance to do this just a bit sooner .
12 If I had n't had the golf-bag on my shoulder , I would have taken off with the umbrella .
13 Well , I 've never even seen a dead body before — imagine , what with the bones , the shroud and the flies ; if I had n't had the camera between me and it , I do n't think I could have looked .
14 I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door .
15 But I had not had a winner since December 27 when Mr Entertainer won at Kempton Park , and many of my horses had been sick . ’
16 If I had not had a sensation which resembles my present sensation I could not assert , ‘ My sensation is a sensation of white ’ with the same meaning as it would have if I had had a sensation resembling it .
17 I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long , but how I did miss it when it absented itself .
18 If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived .
19 While I wondered about his motives , he stoked up his contempt for the whole Jewish race , which had not had the decency to get itself wiped out , as rumoured .
20 Yesterday she had n't had a chance to look properly .
21 ‘ She said she had n't had a drink in 10 days .
22 She had n't had a headache today , in spite of the thundery heat .
23 She says , she 's starved to death because she had n't had no cake !
24 She had been like clay in the hands of a master craftsman , and the most unpalatable knowledge was that she had n't had the strength to resist that breathtaking attraction .
25 She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days .
26 She had n't had an accident . ’
27 She had not had a chance to mention it to Charlotte Hanover before their … their contretemps of the other night , and assumed that he would have the decency to realize that she would not , in any case , want him to accompany her now .
28 At least , she thought as the taxi carried her to the astrologer 's home , she had not had the ordeal of having to explain her bizarre decision to go out to Piers .
29 Ruth was tempted to tell her that at the time she had not had the vicar in mind , but since Mrs Peterson had not come to bring her any comfort , she simply turned her face to the wall .
30 Miranda did not tell him why she had not had the nerve to buttonhole Meursault again , in a later break in the filming .
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