Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [not/n't] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And Labour did not have a monopoly of CND-leaning members or policies . |
2 | Topaz did n't have a chance to reply because Timothy Amsterdam had walked up to them and was staring at the marquis in blank amazement . |
3 | Come to that , the Queen did n't have a ticket . |
4 | The local council did n't have a dog warden either , an no one else seemed able to help me . |
5 | When Alice had been smaller she 'd been surprised to find that every other home did n't have a room devoted only to precious stones … |
6 | Though from the way she remembered it , she had been so eager to be his that shyness had n't had a look in ! |
7 | Unfortunately , some of our supporters who had hiked to the match appeared not to have a sense of humour . |
8 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
9 | But back at WHS headquarters , Sir Malcolm seemed unperturbed by the commentaries , pointing out that the group had not had a reduction in profits for ‘ many , many years ’ . |
10 | What a pity the local library did not have a record of the evening 's discussion . |
11 | ‘ whose grooves on the tread pattern did not have a depth of at least 1.6mm throughout a continuous band situated in the central three-quarters of the breadth of the tread and round the entire outer circumference of the tyre . ’ |
12 | ‘ But the owner did n't have a clue it was so valuable . ’ |
13 | No position report was transmitted at Prince Christian and the pilot did not have a record of the time of passage . |
14 | And so you as a sort of er volunteer army did n't have a lot of |
15 | He could n't help noticing that the man did n't have a thumb . |
16 | ‘ Mum did n't have a sister called Elaine ? |
17 | Rose Cottage did not have a garage , but it had a parking space formed by sacrificing most of the front garden . |
18 | The effect was somewhat marred , though , in that the fireplace did n't have a grate or anything , it was filled with what I hoped was a model of a two-inch mortar . |
19 | We can certainly take this point : on David Frost 's programme the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East did not have a thought in his head about the phasing in of any of those changes . |
20 | Miss Karen Gilroy , organiser of the Northallerton CT Scanner Appeal launched in October 1990 , said she was ‘ disappointed ’ the Friarage Hospital had not had a share of the health department package . |
21 | David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan said the same , fully accepting that his company did not have a research department comparable with that of a major headhunting firm , and neither was this necessarily desirable . |
22 | The German Herbarium did not have a copy of the thesis , but they did advise that the botanist had moved to the United States after completion of her doctorate degree . |
23 | Most PC software did n't have a Macintosh counterpart and even if it did users had to work the magic of the asynchronous communications link to get data back and forth . |
24 | It is difficult to believe that fifteen to twenty years ago the majority of people in this country did not have a bank Current Account . |
25 | whose grooves of the tread pattern of the tyre did not have a depth of at least 1.6 mm throughout a continuous band situated in the central three-quarters of the breadth of the tread and round the entire outer circumference of the tyre . |
26 | ‘ whose grooves of the tread pattern of the tyre did not have a depth of at least 1.6 mm throughout a continuous band situated in the central three-quarters of the breadth of the tread and round the entire outer circumference of the tyre ’ . |
27 | It was a job he seemed to be going after with a vengeance , despite the fact that the sizzling summer temperatures did n't exactly encourage the use of much firewood , and the lodge had not had a winter season for nearly ten years . |
28 | When I l left school , my mother did n't have a maid in the house shortly after that . |
29 | Only the white hat did n't have a chance to pull his six-shooter . |
30 | We do not know her name , though it is unlikely that the sculptor did not have a model . |