Example sentences of "[verb] n't [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The front bit has n't much blood in it , but the two side bits when they fill up with blood and they start to stretch , it 's like blowing up a balloon . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's always talking about going to see her nephew and his children , but she 's never gone and it 's only because she has n't enough money for the ticket . ’ |
| 3 | He had n't much chance of catching Caspar , not at the rate the dog was going . |
| 4 | Maggie went across to him quickly , trying hard to think of something to take his mind off his sister 's minor crime , but she had n't much chance of that . |
| 5 | The poor man had obviously given up hope and I could tell by his apathetic manner that he had n't much faith in this latest ploy . |
| 6 | Then I noticed that Helen had n't much room by my side , so I stepped to the left to where the grating should have been and slid gracefully down into the cellar . |
| 7 | She had n't much stomach for torn flesh or pecked eyes streaming blood . |
| 8 | Rufus , who had n't much appreciation of nature usually , nevertheless found himself gazing in something like wonderment at all the roses , yellow and pink and apricot and dark red , a hedge of white ones , a cascade of peach-red that covered a pergola . |
| 9 | They had n't that veil on them like they used |
| 10 | I do wish the Americans had n't this love of trainloads of initial letters to designate an organization . |
| 11 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 12 | At the time when Shanti was preoccupied with the subject of identity , she expressed the thought that she had n't any choice in the matter : we had taken her whether she liked it or not . |
| 13 | Rose , who had n't any recollection of the Leesons , had been surprised by Jane Leeson 's expression when she had walked into the shop . |
| 14 | The apartment had been cleared by his men , and she had n't any family in town . |
| 15 | He had n't enough money for a taxi so they took the bus back to Champney Crucis . |
| 16 | At four hundred feet he had n't enough altitude from which he could recover if he went into a spin . |
| 17 | Does n't that stem from … from your heartbreak over Gabriella ? ’ |
| 18 | Does n't that sort of bring in to the country and she 's out in the country and she wants to show it to them that she she 's sort of she 's still fashionable . |
| 19 | She certainly does n't any kind of handicap or a stigma . |
| 20 | Does n't this kind of dancing meet with your approval ? ’ |
| 21 | I mean , for instance , I have n't much sympathy with Edwina Currie because I think erm any false image because she is a very media orientated person and erm |
| 22 | I have n't much sense of smell . " |
| 23 | ‘ The problem with big musicals , ’ said Garland , ‘ is that English directors have n't much experience with them . |
| 24 | Pretty silly of me to give you a false name , but I have n't much experience of — of — ‘ |
| 25 | ‘ I have n't much experience of them , sir , ’ I answered . |
| 26 | ‘ Corporal ’ — her voice was clear and could have been that of a schoolteacher reprimanding — ‘ I have n't much opinion of my legs , but I can assure you you are not the type of man I would allow within parade ground distance of them , let alone pull them . ’ |
| 27 | You have n't that chapter for the rest of the year and say the teacher probably thinks well this child and |
| 28 | They pushed through the padded door , back towards the dining room , and Miranda confided , ‘ When I 'm really on the breadline and someone 's taking me out , I sometimes tell them I have n't any change for Madame Pipi — they give me something . |
| 29 | No , no I have n't any idea at all about that . |
| 30 | So you would n't just push it all out , and how do you discuss new educational reforms if you have n't any idea about the original previous |