Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] not [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped Doone would net him soon , but I had n't much faith . |
| 2 | I agreed ; I had n't much choice . |
| 3 | Well I had n't much choice have I ? |
| 4 | I had n't enough money to get there by conventional means but no matter . |
| 5 | But I had n't any choice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I had n't any idea you would call yourself a humanist . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I had n't any idea ! |
| 10 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 11 | I mean I had n't any worries . |
| 12 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | As they were descending , Reynolds said , ‘ I get the impression that you did n't much rate Jenner . ’ |
| 15 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She had n't much stomach for torn flesh or pecked eyes streaming blood . |
| 18 | Short of making an embarrassing scene , she had n't much option . |
| 19 | She did n't look much like my idea of a prostitute either , but that was because she had n't any make-up on . |
| 20 | ‘ The single ? ’ he 'd said , knowing that she had n't any money . |
| 21 | Rosie … well , she had n't any money , had she ? |
| 22 | No , she had n't any friends , because he would n't like it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She knew she had n't any choice anyhow but to agree . |
| 25 | The apartment had been cleared by his men , and she had n't any family in town . |
| 26 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 27 | In the act of conducting you made such inward exertions that you had not enough energy left to watch over the outward appearance . |
| 28 | Er well nationalization during the war , the er nationalization and war news were interspersed you know , I mean the When you had n't any war news to talk about , you spoke about nationalization . |
| 29 | " I thought perhaps you had n't enough money . |
| 30 | I I I just wonder what the opposition would think if you decided that the criteria approach alone was not acceptable and you equally decided you had n't enough information to specify a location , where would that leave you ? |