Example sentences of "have have no [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd had no idea that Dora Jenks would last any longer than the others .
2 She 'd had no idea that she was capable of behaving in such a passionate way , or of forgetting all her inhibitions so completely .
3 She 'd had no idea that her new employer was waiting !
4 She 'd had no lunch and was beginning to feel the effects of not eating for so long .
5 But I 'd had no sleep and I was feeling it got worse .
6 He 'd had no sleep and had been nearly drowned , almost had his throat cut , been shot at and then nearly rammed by a patrol boat .
7 I 'd had no leave and , what with one thing and another , I rather wanted a break .
8 He had forced his way into her life , arranged things so that she 'd had no choice but to do his bidding — and as soon as she 'd done something to make it clear that she was still her own person and not his , he 'd humiliated her .
9 But as the car sped on , it was still very much on her mind that with her car lifeless , the garage mechanics the only people able to put some life back into it , she 'd had no option but to leave her car back there .
10 I was famished , having had no food or sleep for thirty hours .
11 He could have had no idea that Mr Waterhouse was to become one of the greatest civic architects of the north , for in 1856 , when Hinderton Hall was built , he was still at the brink of his career .
12 What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river .
13 But then , he could have had no idea that we were going to have a look at the Delos .
14 Well , in t e old days , two years ago , when she 'd been his Gemma , she 'd have had no choice but to pack her trunks and live under the roof he provided , wherever he chose to provide it .
15 Donaldson would have had no option but to make arrangements for the delegation , even though he may have been well aware of what the reaction would be .
16 They had had no idea that anything was amiss .
17 Honor had had no idea that there was a woman in Timothy 's life and the news had taken every vestige of colour out of her face .
18 Though she knew that her father travelled to Switzerland , she had had no idea that he was so well acquainted with the Princesse 's household .
19 She had had no idea that such events still took place .
20 There had been no guard rails and the men had had no experience or instructions to carry out the job .
21 The husband of the cleaning woman had been a soldier , and she had said that he had had no choice but to obey his orders to shoot Jews .
22 He said the Chancellor had had no choice but to put interest rates up last week .
23 He had had no choice but to ignore the whimpering of his hungry children and take the grain to market .
24 ‘ I 'm impervious to your charm ’ , she 'd said — and he , the great Prince Sabatini , had had no choice but to prove her wrong .
25 For those living in residential care , more than half did not know the difference between private and public homes ( p. 187 ) , whilst two-thirds of residents said they had had no choice as to which home they might enter .
26 It had shocked him to discover , while a student , that at least half the men in his year had had no love or emotional experience at all .
27 It also noted that the Brady plan had been applied on a slow-moving voluntary basis which depended on the goodwill of creditor governments and banks , and claimed that in the absence of such goodwill debtor governments had had no alternative but to declare moratoriums as a means of attracting attention to their situation .
28 During the meeting Yassir Arafat , the PLO chair , stressed that the PLO had had no alternative but to support Iraq during the Gulf war .
29 I released the crew that had had no food or rest all day and we were ready for the first watch next day . ’
30 They had met just three months ago , yet now it seemed that the whole of her life had been crammed into those few fleeting weeks ; as if her living had had no meaning before they met and her future would have no substance if ever he left her .
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