Example sentences of "[pron] had not had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would be more worried if I had n't had chances in my previous games . |
| 2 | I had n't had Hilary since he was in the second year . ’ |
| 3 | After reading the list and being thankful I had n't had sex with any African women ( amongst other things ) I signed the declaration and had the blood tests for Anaemia and other nasties . |
| 4 | She added : ‘ If I had n't had Steffine with me I would have had a go . |
| 5 | But it struck me that I had n't had time to do this for ages . |
| 6 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 7 | The coffee made by that blasted mother 's boy Sartini had been like water as usual and the Brigadier himself had n't had time to go home and shave . |
| 8 | She had n't had time to notice them before . |
| 9 | She had n't had time to work out an answer to such a question . |
| 10 | Already back at work today , Mrs Williams said she had n't had time to be frightened . |
| 11 | She said , well I , I do n't know what to do , she said , I have n't read , you know , she had n't read the election , she had n't had time to read the election addresses , and she 's not really interested in ac actually so she has n't watched it on the television . |
| 12 | I said what happens if she had n't had Down 's Syndrome , they said she could have gone home , so I said : ‘ That 's it , wrap her up , we 're going home . |
| 13 | She had not had money for clothes , and neither the time nor the inclination to experiment with make-up and other items of fashion . |
| 14 | She was considerably upset by this and amongst protestations of sexual continence said that , apart from this young man , she had not had intercourse with anybody else since her husband , who had left her ten months previously . |
| 15 | She knew , with a feeling of detachment , that she attracted quite a few stares herself , primarily from men , and that if she had not had André at her side she would have been in very real danger of having to concoct a few efficient exit lines . |
| 16 | As a child she had not had time for many fairy stories and did not now know them to tell to her daughter again , but instead she showed her the pictures . |
| 17 | Loretta was irritated ; she had not had time to think that far ahead . |
| 18 | Poor Gloria who had n't had breakfast . |
| 19 | Those patients who had not had liver biopsies had had significantly abnormal liver function tests and/or ultrasound or isotopic scanning evidence of liver disease . |
| 20 | Absorption of the HRT was satisfactory as regular periods returned in those who had not had hysterectomy , menopausal symptoms resolved , and compliance with the treatment was good . |
| 21 | With help from Wood Green Animal Shelters , Serpell made contact with people who had not had pets for some time but who were now about to get a dog or cat . |
| 22 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 23 | His letter to Mrs Thrale contained more detail , expressed with greater pungency , and it confirms the ‘ Dark Continent ’ feel of his experience : ‘ The Inhabitants , a very coarse tribe , ignorant of any language but earse [ sic ] , gathered so fast about us , that if we had not had Highlanders with us , they might have caused more alarm than pleasure . ’ |
| 24 | They had n't had gas in their last room . |
| 25 | Course , they had n't had lorries in them days , they drive them on the road and you see old shepherd coming along with a couple of dogs and goodness knows how many sheep ! |
| 26 | What was the reason for the growth between eighteen hundred and eighteen fifty because they had n't had sort of mass industrialization industrialization which had caused population growth in other countries so was there any particular reason why there 's should have trebled in that time ? |
| 27 | But they had not had time to implement then when , on 1 February 1979 , the ayatollah returned to Teheran in triumph like Lenin to the Finland Station . |
| 28 | It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible . |
| 29 | She could never understand what he did with it , where it went — he had not had time for … that other life of his , he had been with Bert , with Jack ! |
| 30 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |