Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We just did n't have arms . ’ |
| 2 | She just did n't have Mandy 's devil-may-care charm . |
| 3 | Or maybe they just did n't have architects within three miles of the sea . |
| 4 | ‘ Idiotic of me , really , but I just did n't have time to ask . ’ |
| 5 | He just did n't have time . |
| 6 | Yes , to be fair Jenny came in er , on Friday to talk to me about it , but I just did n't have time , I was rushing off to a meeting so I 've |
| 7 | Yeah , I , I could n't , I just did n't have time . |
| 8 | If it was n't ready , just as he liked it , there would be trouble and that was something she just did n't have time for . |
| 9 | She was doing so reluctantly , it was her Poly day and she really did not have time . |
| 10 | I did n't do a self-evaluation — an evaluation of myself — for the simple reason that we really did n't have time to sit down and think it out , and its a bit difficult doing it objectively … because you have no standard to compare . |
| 11 | He said the bus services in the town often did not have ramps needed to get a wheelchair on board , and long journeys by bus were often more uncomfortable than travelling by train . |
| 12 | Although I was sympathetic , I explained we had two children and a large dog and simply did n't have room for him . |
| 13 | He simply did n't have time . ’ |
| 14 | Right now she had enough on her plate with the club and the house — she simply did n't have time to contend with him too . |
| 15 | He simply had n't had time to lay one of his spectacular contingency plans or clever traps . |
| 16 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |