Example sentences of "[pron] had n't the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few days , nine or ten , I wondered if it would aid things to pay a visit to Scotland , but I had n't the purpose for it , let alone the money . |
| 2 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |
| 3 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 4 | But I had n't the heart . |
| 5 | Driving home in the minibus , she offered Silas an apologetic smile as she admitted , ‘ I had n't the heart to throw them out . ’ |
| 6 | and I had n't the heart to tell |
| 7 | I 've done my own cleaning ready for Christmas which I had n't the energy for in the spring and my husband and I walk about 3–4 miles every day . |
| 8 | I just gave in , I had n't the strength to resist them . |
| 9 | ‘ But by then I had been her slave nearly all my life and I had n't the courage or the guts to say no . |
| 10 | But she had n't the patience for that . |
| 11 | Yet she had n't the heart to forbid him to smoke when he had so few comforts left . |
| 12 | When he died in her arms in the scalp , she had n't the heart or the strength to survive . ’ |
| 13 | She had n't the luxury of considering her options . |
| 14 | At the end of the summer she was so hungry she had n't the energy to move further than Paddy 's dilapidated chair and she stitched a baby 's gown from her only decent petticoat . |
| 15 | Berthe Weill protested that she could not leave the gallery for the moment , she had n't the time , there were all the guests to look after . |
| 16 | She was terrified that he would refuse , knowing she had n't the strength to force him , and would n't even if she could . |
| 17 | Even when she looked up and saw the half mortals approaching from the forest , she had n't the strength to be afraid . |
| 18 | She felt herself being picked up and carried , but she had n't the strength to struggle . |
| 19 | Mainly she was bored , but she knew she had n't the strength to get away on her own . |
| 20 | I realized that in fact she was absolutely determined on going , she had n't the imagination to act out this sort of scene to punish me , nor , to be fair , would she ever have been so spiteful if she had . |
| 21 | By the end of the ceremony she was so upset that she had n't the nerve to go to the house with the small party of mourners , and caught a train straight back to London . |
| 22 | She would have loved to know what the erring Frau Gesner had done , but he had suddenly looked so stern , so sad , that she had n't the nerve to ask . |
| 23 | Actually , there was a footpath through Wardle Wood from near her village , and if she had dared to go along it she could have walked to Brownies in not much more time than it took her to ride by way of the long winding lane ; but she was sure she had n't the courage to go through the witch 's wood by herself . |
| 24 | But she saw his lips move and her eyes fixed on them , for suddenly she had n't the courage to look into his eyes . |
| 25 | Frequently they had n't the money . |
| 26 | Perhaps they had n't the confidence they always seemed to have . |
| 27 | ‘ And I 've been stung by nettles , ’ he said , injured , and pretended not to hear Dorrainge who said it was a mistake to pamper nettle stings , and they had n't the time to soothe people 's silly imagined injuries . |
| 28 | But in the end it was n't enough because they had n't the courage to confront and defy the handful of men who control the trade union bureaucracy . |
| 29 | They had n't the appeal of the stinking lanes fitfully lit by naphtha flares in the souks when a fair went on long into the night . |
| 30 | And when Ward said it had n't the range , Gómez replied sharply , ‘ But I think it has . |