Example sentences of "have not [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe we Scots and Irish have paid a high price for our long memories , but who in Scotland or Ireland has not some attitude to the Great Hunger , or the Clearances , or just to a vague morass of names , Culloden and Robert the Bruce and Rebel Songs ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Did you ever have not enough work for the number of men you had ? |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 7 | This could have worked and altered the course of history , had not another miner within the City devised a scheme of counter mines through which water was directed and the gunpowder flooded . |
| 8 | They 've not much time for things that are n't either pleasurable or functional . |
| 9 | He had n't much chance of catching Caspar , not at the rate the dog was going . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had n't much stomach for torn flesh or pecked eyes streaming blood . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They had n't that veil on them like they used |
| 16 | I do wish the Americans had n't this love of trainloads of initial letters to designate an organization . |
| 17 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The apartment had been cleared by his men , and she had n't any family in town . |
| 21 | Dear Mrs Woodward … she was a neighbour who did n't really need to send presents at all but she liked the girls and had n't any children of her own . |
| 22 | He had n't enough money for a taxi so they took the bus back to Champney Crucis . |
| 23 | At four hundred feet he had n't enough altitude from which he could recover if he went into a spin . |
| 24 | Christ knows , as if we had n't enough problems with the bloody Germans without Peter Young stirring them up. , The Sergeant marched off muttering loudly to himself , something about ‘ fucking bagpipes ' ’ and ‘ ‘ crazy colonels ' ’ . |
| 25 | Mark Twain , the American writer , found European trains primitive after his native ones : ‘ The conductor locks you in when the train starts ; there is no water to drink in the car , there is no heating apparatus … they have not that culmination of all charity and human kindness , a sleeping car … ’ |
| 26 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 27 | All the ‘ furniture of the earth , … all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world ’ , he says , ‘ have not any subsistence without a mind . ’ |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | I have n't much sense of smell . " |
| 30 | ‘ The problem with big musicals , ’ said Garland , ‘ is that English directors have n't much experience with them . |