Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] not have [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's just … it 's just … that I do n't have many friends and I do feel sort of isolated , I s'pose — ’ I pulled up short , I was trespassing on forbidden ground , getting close to revealing more than I should .
2 ‘ I just do n't think you should have told them that I do n't have any confidence with women . ’
3 I have a reputation for honesty and fair trading — and it 's well known that I do n't have any truck with shady deals , ’ she informed him bluntly .
4 Let me make it crystal clear — I have done it before and I do not mind doing it again — that I do not have any fundamental or irrevocable objections to timetable motions .
5 I figured that I did n't have much of a chance to be the best player in the US , the country being so big .
6 It is probably all to the good that I did n't have this book with me , since the ready availability of a thick volume containing every registration number ever carried by every aeroplane currently registered or based in the United Kingdom could only have prompted further unanswerable questions as to why anyone could therefore need to write them down .
7 I did n't belong to a union , I did n't know anything about my rights then , and I know now that I did n't have any in that particular case …
8 ‘ The difference against Wales was that I did n't have any really long kicks , ’ he replied .
9 I am not quite sure who it was I sat next to because I am such a slow eater that I did not have much time for conversation .
10 I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise .
11 I began by squeezing colour into a small ceramic well palette but found that I did not have enough colour for what I wanted to do .
12 She felt that she did not have enough to do .
13 The Under-Secretary of State said in her discussions with the Select Committee that she did not have any examples of evictions , yet the Association of Metropolitan Authorities told us that 24 per cent .
14 My mum wrote back and said that she did n't have that kind of money .
15 ‘ It 's just that she did n't have any life . ’
16 ‘ I am surprised that you do not have more enemies than friends here . ’
17 Once you have managed it you should find that you do not have any problems on later occasions .
18 An environmental change can ease this : it is much easier to say that you do n't have any sweets in the house than to say ‘ no ’ to a child who knows that they are in the cupboard .
19 If you ca n't do all this , the probability is that you do n't have any talented people around ( in which case there 's no way you 'll be successful and profitable tomorrow ) .
20 Even so I am surprised that you do n't have enough memory left to run your wordprocessor 's configuration program .
21 ‘ You as much as told me , the other night , that you did n't have any experience . ’
22 ‘ What a shame for us both that you did n't have more willpower , ’ Jessamy said bitterly .
23 With regard to your claim that you did not have enough information on which to base an accurate estimate , I shall copy your letter to at the Central Purchasing Unit for her advice as to how we should proceed .
24 That we do not have such an answer , it can be argued , is the fact that what follows , from the occurrence of the effect , is only that that circumstance or another occurred .
25 Some argue that we do not have enough proof of danger to justify stricter controls on dumping or to warrant the extra expenditure involved .
26 Since women 's place in the sociology of work is very much a secondary one it follows that we do not have enough empirical data to determine the relative importance to women of their experiences in the occupational sector .
27 The difficulty is that we do not have enough evidence to come to a sure conclusion .
28 Just thank our lucky stars that we do n't have such problems here in England ! ! ! ! ! !
29 Perhaps it 's just that we do n't have enough of those long , thin granite cracks .
30 Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true .
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