Example sentences of "[verb] n't have enough " in BNC.

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1 We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly .
2 The films had a sense of urgency that the rest of mainstream British cinema at the time largely lacked , but their directors did n't have enough personal contact with the lives of their characters to offer visions that rang true .
3 ‘ I tried to attack him but I did n't have enough patience .
4 Man : ‘ Those were people who did n't have enough for dinner , got excited and fainted . ’
5 I did n't have enough experience in the music industry to be able to create further usefulness .
6 We then did n't have enough materials for the wall so we had to shorten its length , which in turn meant there was not enough room for media vehicles and not enough space for VIPs to manoeuvre their cars in , and that meant altering security arrangements .
7 I sometimes worried that he did n't have enough time to see his own music but it seems he has it by memory .
8 as if we did n't have enough to think about , we also had the performance of the streaker , of course .
9 We then found that we did n't have enough cash to pay the landing fees , and in response I offered Portuguese escudos , converting at the rate in the newspaper .
10 Our aircraft did n't have enough fuel to make Bangkok , so we called the Thai military base and Kamphaeng Saen and got permission to land .
11 When she got off the train from Chertsey she did n't have enough money to take an omnibus .
12 She did n't have enough money set aside for the simultaneous cost of rent , an unexpectedly high fuel bill and Christmas expenses , so borrowed money to pay : loan instalments added another £12.05 to her weekly outgoings .
13 They did n't have enough faith in him , ’ Violet said glowing with pride .
14 Eventually his licence was taken away because he did n't have enough horses .
15 Then they did n't have enough financial clout to tempt Stuart Pearce from Nottingham Forest .
16 This occurred when a broker attempted to undertake a single transaction involving 2,000m Hungarian Forints — $22m — in the government bonds market only to discover that the appropriate field in the application did n't have enough space for the zeros .
17 as if they did n't have enough problems already , green turtles from Florida to Australia have been turning up with horrific cancerous tumours .
18 And died of hypothermia , Preston surmised , because she did n't have enough newspapers shoved up her vest .
19 Daak could make deep incisions in places round the edge , but he did n't have enough leverage to cut off slices of the strange metal .
20 I spent my days with a lovely old lady who stayed in bed because the staff did n't have enough time to get her up .
21 I did n't have enough work for three clerks .
22 First of all , I expect most of you have heard that the proposed holiday to Torbay has had to be cancelled cos we did n't have enough support .
23 We did n't have enough bloody grub to sing on !
24 as if he did n't have enough to worry about .
25 We did n't have enough ocean-going vessels in our own tanker fleet .
26 as if he did n't have enough to worry about already !
27 And I felt it was n't up to them , I did n't have enough experience I wanted to gain some more experience but it just fell away , lapse .
28 As though I did n't have enough problems .
29 ‘ As though I did n't have enough on my plate as it is ! ’
30 as if she did n't have enough troubles to contend with .
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