Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I only know I did not have much fun this summer . ’ |
| 3 | I did not have enough knowledge to enable me to make a complete computer model of the individual player 's contribution to the stroke . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was nervous because I did not have any friends and I was worried that I would be on my own . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But they did escape with some cash and costume jewellery which did not have any great value but which was important sentimentally to me . |
| 8 | Houses built over garages , which did not have enough columns to damp the lateral motion , crumpled to the ground in San Francisco |
| 9 | BOTCHED plans for a rail bridge which did not have enough room for trains to pass beneath cost the taxpayer nearly £1m , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 10 | When one comes to look at the judgments in the American Economic Laundry case , it appears clear that the approach which the court was adopting in that case was to regard the tenant against whom a possession order had been made as a statutory tenant who did not have all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts . |
| 11 | Among those who did not have this facility , two-fifths were thought to have wanted it . |
| 12 | The Death Grant had been introduced before the war to help families who did not have enough money to bury their dead . |
| 13 | In the West African slave trade , a pidgin form of English ( i.e. a pidgin with English as lexifier ) was used for communication between the English slavers and their African counterparts , as well as among those Africans involved in the trade who did not have any other language in common . |
| 14 | Even those who did not have any formal law-enforcement responsibility could be affected by the campaign against Dissent . |
| 15 | Well might Walsingham remark that there was scarcely a woman in England who did not have some household possession from the sack of Caen , the seizure of Calais , and other English successes in France . |
| 16 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 17 | You did not have any influence at all over what they said . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job . |
| 20 | She did not have much baggage with her , as most of her belongings , accumulated in her two years ' stay in New York , had been sent ahead by sea . |
| 21 | But she did not have that luxury . |
| 22 | She did not have any addresses of friends , or family . |
| 23 | The third patient was a Jewish woman who had been born in Tunisia ( a cluster of cases of the mutation has occurred in such patients ) ; she did not have any known familial history of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ) . |
| 24 | Because she did not have any preparation for pregnancy or birth , her labour and delivery were quite difficult , complicated by her having curvature of the spine which was not realised at such short notice . |
| 25 | There was no question of his approaching the father directly as a man such as Huy would not be allowed into the palace compound ; but Taheb was a rich businesswoman , and if she did not have any personal knowledge of the family , she would have contacts who would . |
| 26 | She did not have any idea , she realised abruptly , of what she was going to say to fitzAlan . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was a route she chose originally because she did not have enough capital to expand at the rate business demanded . |
| 29 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 30 | She felt that she did not have enough to do . |