Example sentences of "[conj] i [adv] do n't have " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I would dearly love to know why you keep sticking me with motives that I just do n't have !
2 Glass credits her with raising the general level of musicianship in the United States and the debt he owes to her tyranny is ‘ a sense of style , accomplishment and a technique that I simply did n't have before . ’
3 Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this .
4 well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything .
5 And I just do n't have the support I had hoped for — from you , perhaps , yes .
6 Now that means that bands are being arm-wrestled into sounding like Nirvana ; and the only record companies can imagine doing that is by hiring Nirvana 's producer , so every band on a major label has been remixed by Nirvana 's producer this year … and I just do n't have any interest in being part of the continuum . ’
7 Now , I 'm a very busy man , and I really do n't have time to stand here listening to you any longer . ’
8 ‘ There 's no one in my foster family who could afford to give even a few pounds away , ’ he said , ‘ and I certainly do n't have any rich friends .
9 Obviously , I could make better use of the space by replacing them with an 8 x 12ft monster , but that was too expensive £500 , or more … and I certainly did n't have that much going spare .
10 She really has this er attitude which I can not understand because erm a a as I think it was Al Reeve said , you know , erm some people ca n't bear children , we ca n't , but we like them but if you have actually borne children , you are in other words a mother , you 've got ta have a attitude , not only to children in general but to your children in particular , which is very very difficult for er a male to understand and a non-father , it 's gon na be very very difficult cos I personally do n't have any children at all and therefore it is very very difficult for me to even comprehend but given that I can erm I can sympathize with something I do not comprehend it must be monumentally difficult for her
11 Ken Branagh is a fascinating man and he has an amazing sense of duty to other people , but I just do n't have his kind of energy .
12 But I just do n't have the heart to explore these ideas ’ , says Gibson .
13 ‘ Idiotic of me , really , but I just did n't have time to ask . ’
14 Yes , to be fair Jenny came in er , on Friday to talk to me about it , but I just did n't have time , I was rushing off to a meeting so I 've
15 But I really do n't have the time right now .
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