Example sentences of "do n't [adv] have [det] " in BNC.
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1 | All I needed was 10 pence — which was what you had to pay in those days if you said you came from the previous stop — but I did n't even have that . |
2 | Now she did n't even have that — just a few bitter memories . |
3 | ‘ And he did n't even have any medals I could send her . ’ |
4 | We did n't even have any jam . |
5 | I was terrified , I sat there until my boyfriend came back , I did n't even have enough money for my bus fare or to make a phone call to my brother and ask him to come and pick me up . |
6 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
7 | It was always like this these days — two colleagues who respected each other but did n't really have much to say . |
8 | In this case , however , she did n't really have much choice , and the realisation rankled . |
9 | I did n't really have much idea of what was going on at all . |
10 | I was convinced that my feelings did n't matter and , anyway , I did n't really have any friends . |
11 | The difference between this and the Marley one is that with Marley we did n't really have any poster work , it was mainly concentrating on black and white photography . |
12 | She did n't really have any choice , for she had no other contacts in Paris . |
13 | She did n't really have any idea why she was going there . |
14 | Ken Vasey did n't have to make a save in the first half , did n't really have to did n't give Charlton a chance , and even in the second half when Charlton came forward more and more , they did n't really have any chances erm one that Lee volleyed over the bar , one that was headed over the crossbar , and the chance that went in the net , so they still did n't have many chances , but erm United somehow erm construed to drop two points , and erm yes , dreadfully disappointing . |
15 | It had rudimentary listings of events , it had previews , but it did n't really have enough . |
16 | A good working dog — at least one is essential for any stock farmer but the Hauxwells did n't always have much luck in finding the right one . |
17 | ‘ He always worked very hard on the training pitch when he was at Tottenham , but he did n't always have that bit of luck a keeper sometimes needs . |
18 | Cos I did n't quite have enough . |
19 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
20 | We did n't actually have much play mobile when I , when I went and looked . |
21 | She did n't finish her threat , because she did n't actually have any idea what she could do . |
22 | Forty five point four , I 'll , I 'll sort this out in a minute , I do n't normally have this trouble at the station . |
23 | There 's , the thing is they 're terribly expensive if you , if you do n't exactly have any money |
24 | So sex and the capacity to evolve rapidly is a property of the species , not of an individual erm and consequently once can visualize erm species selection being responsible for it 's evolution , so I do n't actually have much taste for species selection . |
25 | They just do n't actually have that information , a lot of small local groups , and I think maybe the C B S could work with the Engineers department in future years and try to get to those groups , because I 'm sure a lot of them , actually if they were given the opportunity in time to get in , that , that you might have a lot of people applying for flag and whatever than you do now . |
26 | ‘ You do n't actually have any choice , do you ? ’ he said , in a very cool voice . |
27 | ‘ We do n't have Thomson and although Airtours have bought Aspro they do n't actually have any travel agents here , ’ he said . |
28 | ‘ We do n't have Thomson and although Airtours have bought Aspro they do n't actually have any travel agents here , ’ he said . |
29 | Yeah but you do n't actually have any acne . |
30 | A tragedy for the customers of all the banks , mostly French these days , that have substantial funds tied up financing IBM mainframes on the assumption of residual values that are emphatically no longer justified , and therefore do n't now have that money available to finance new and promising businesses . |