Example sentences of "we [verb] n't have [det] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah and , and if you could , I mean the thing is , if you 're , if er , if we did n't have each other to go off with erm it would have made everything for us a lot different , I mean okay we 're lucky we 're in a situation where we do know a lot of people who are , who are like- minded
2 We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it .
3 We did n't have much time for subtle distinctions down in East Oxford .
4 We did n't have much to do , just sit at a table or something , and when it 's over I go outside and sit in the car , and Peckinpah comes out and gives me this look .
5 Well , we did n't have much luck out in the open because the rabbits saw or heard or smelt us coming a mile off and bolted down the nearest hole , even though we were mute and trying to stay down wind ( the wind kept switching direction in little gusts ) .
6 Anyway , we did n't have much luck in the hollow either , so we moved further up the field .
7 We did n't have much money , of course , and we had to work very hard .
8 passed through , because they did n't stop at Needham and er but I always thought , you see , there were , I do n't know several clerks in that office as I remember but I ca n't remember who they were anyway I did n't have , we did n't have much to do with them .
9 But I mean you know , we did n't have much .
10 Well I was at school when they was rebuilding , they were , we did n't have much time and
11 ninety eight , I think it was for two dozen , what happen we did n't have much choice you could n't get the two dozen boxes
12 We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make .
13 but we did n't have many of them , we only had about two or three come up and they came from Australia
14 we did n't have many bookings ,
15 No we did n't actually , we did n't have many , nearly all , nearly all the were .
16 Stoke boss Lou Macari was more subdued as he admitted : ‘ It needed a little spark of magic up front to get us into the next round , but we did n't have that spark tonight . ’
17 We did n't have that .
18 We did n't have all the things we 've got today ’
19 Now we 've chosen to spend that amount of money , we did n't have all the staff in place on the first of April , we have recruited them during the year , as demand has risen .
20 She delivered the baby , resuscitated it — and remember , we did n't have all the fancy equipment the hospitals did .
21 Erm , we did n't have those when these papers were prepared , but the position is , that there is a guideline for new starts for this Committee , of some seven hundred and eighty six thousand pounds , with two hundred thousand being set aside to go towards architects and other fee costs associated with that programme , and the existing programme .
22 Mr Bain , who is in charge of the US operations , said : ‘ We did n't have any presence in the specialist medical markets , and pharmaceuticals is a fast-growing business with an ageing Western population and greater choice of drugs to be marketed .
23 We did n't have any understanding of the business colleges .
24 I did little bits to help , like picking up sticks for firewood and fetching water from the well , as we did n't have any electricity or running water .
25 He said : ‘ When we played last time we did n't have any problem , but here they tried to unsettle us because they were really frustrated .
26 The room service kind of crept in and since we did n't have any cash , we charged meals .
27 The entrepreneurial Elizabeth Taylor ( no relation ) read an article about organic markets in France , les Marches Biologiques , and wondered why we did n't have any here .
28 Just now we did n't have any name for it at all , and it was just The Bar , like it always was , the bar .
29 We did n't have any definite , set plans as to what we wanted to do with the record .
30 ‘ We had one advert with pigs — but we did n't have any complaints from outraged overweight people . ’
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