Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you get It 's only when you get oily greasy stains that you think , oh I 'd better some ethanol or |
| 2 | Indeed , the next months were taxing in a different way , culminating in my appointment to a post in Bahrein for which I had little enough relish . |
| 3 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 4 | I hoped Doone would net him soon , but I had n't much faith . |
| 5 | I had n't much more time to think about him at that moment , because a large black car swept past the open windows with Laura at the wheel . |
| 6 | I agreed ; I had n't much choice . |
| 7 | Well I had n't much choice have I ? |
| 8 | I had n't enough money to get there by conventional means but no matter . |
| 9 | I had n't any LM so gave Mill 6C which stopped the haemorrhaging but led to such severe abdominal pains the GP was called . |
| 10 | I 'm not suited to fatherhood and I had n't any wish to be made ridiculous by paternity suits . |
| 11 | ‘ I had n't any idea you would call yourself a humanist . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 13 | Anyway , of course I had n't any . |
| 14 | I had n't any idea what he was talking about but I listened attentively to his description of lands I had never imagined , with their dark green forests , snowy slopes and frozen lakes . |
| 15 | ‘ I had n't any idea ! |
| 16 | But I had n't any choice . |
| 17 | I mean I had n't any worries . |
| 18 | Next I had yet another idea , I wrote to the American Women 's Club of Thailand and asked for the donation of a video player . |
| 19 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 20 | I wish I had not such an account of grumpiness to give you . |
| 21 | As the clouds of imminent civil war gathered , Pelham hastened back to Hull where he later wrote : ‘ I kept the King out of Hull when he came in person ( although I had not such instructions from the House ) — where was a very great magazine in which I suppose I saved the State above £100,000 … |
| 22 | I wish I had just half the strength of those |
| 23 | I had just enough sense to appreciate that as a pain it rated no higher than a toothache . |
| 24 | In seven years I had as many new cars , each one more highly powered and larger than the last . |
| 25 | If only I had as much spare time as you evidently do , then I would happily reciprocate by wandering about this house reminding you of tasks you have perfectly well in hand . ’ |
| 26 | I wish I had as few reservations . |
| 27 | I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk . |
| 28 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 29 | Of course , I told you I had too much on my plate to be able to continue our correspondence , and I hope this is the reason you stopped writing . |
| 30 | I think I told him I had too much homework that night but I would be free on Saturday . ’ |