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

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1 ‘ I could see that he had not had a drink yet and I was doubly surprised that he seemed in a good mood . ’
2 It dawned on him that he had not had a date for weeks , and his first one would be with her at the Edwardian Ball .
3 ‘ When we understood what he meant to do , we endeavoured to dissuade him ; but he was resolute , saying he had not had a roll for a long time ; and taking out of his pockets whatever might be in them — keys , pencil , purse , or pen-knife — and laying himself parallel with the edge of the hill , he actually descended turning himself over and over till he came to the bottom . ’
4 He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise .
5 Oslin Williams , who was severely burned last year in a fire which killed his father at their caravan home , would have died from asphyxiation due to scarring of his windpipe if he had not had the operation , surgeons said .
6 Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others .
7 He had not had the burden of responsibility which had been placed on Jonadab 's shoulders .
8 Marco 's devotion to Samavia , given his reflective nature , could easily have seemed priggish if he had not had the Rat as a foil , with his quick memory and his youthful ingenuity .
9 In the light of my head torch I could see that Nat was grey-faced with fatigue , his eyelids drooping , his mouth surrounded by frost that he had not had the strength to wipe away .
10 Outside , the sun lashed him across the forehead with a warning of another headache to come , and he wished he had n't had a drink with lunch at paderborn .
11 He had n't had a clothing parcel for a long time .
12 He had n't had a book out .
13 He wrote his plea as follows : if he had n't had a reply from her before noon on the last day of the week ( which meant return post ) he would trouble her no more .
14 But he had n't had the guts to do it .
15 Common sense should have told her that he had n't had the time , even if he 'd had the inclination , to arrange that visit from those two men .
16 If he had n't had the business I would have left him within a month .
17 Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he had n't had an audience , and lines to speak ?
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