Example sentences of "do n't [adv] have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't exactly have three girls at centre-back either . |
| 2 | We did n't just have one or two but several , all over the place . |
| 3 | We did n't even have liquid or powders then , just Sunlight soap , which Mother cut into pieces and dissolved in a large iron pan on the fire . |
| 4 | In that final respect , the Healey was like the Cobra , but the Cobra did n't even have external door handles , just simple pulls inside which you reach in to open . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now she did n't even have that — just a few bitter memories . |
| 7 | ‘ And he did n't even have any medals I could send her . ’ |
| 8 | We did n't even have any jam . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We sat that first evening on two carpenter 's benches — we did n't even have proper tables and chairs — and started mixing the album . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | It was always like this these days — two colleagues who respected each other but did n't really have much to say . |
| 13 | In this case , however , she did n't really have much choice , and the realisation rankled . |
| 14 | I did n't really have much idea of what was going on at all . |
| 15 | I was convinced that my feelings did n't matter and , anyway , I did n't really have any friends . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She did n't really have any choice , for she had no other contacts in Paris . |
| 18 | She did n't really have any idea why she was going there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well no , she did n't really have bad dreams — oh … but that was before … she remembered . |
| 21 | It had rudimentary listings of events , it had previews , but it did n't really have enough . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Cos I did n't quite have enough . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We did n't actually have much play mobile when I , when I went and looked . |
| 27 | She did n't finish her threat , because she did n't actually have any idea what she could do . |
| 28 | I was going to say as long as you do n't both have two days at the same time . |
| 29 | According to NMW coordinator Jan Martins , some employers do n't just have separate canteens for different grades of staff , they even have two sorts of lavatory paper — soft for the senior executive and , you guessed it , the scratchy kind for your humbler bottom . |
| 30 | If we 're to win Fairclough must mark flash well and Newsome and possibly Pemberton play out of their skins — Battyburn do n't just have flash although it does appear that way at times . |