Example sentences of "because they [verb] n't have " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no anaesthetic because they did n't have any . |
| 2 | Rock was rebelling against my parents , but jazz was rebelling against my parents as well as all my peers , because they did n't have any idea what I was talking about ! ’ |
| 3 | But I 've heard him quoted as saying that one of the reasons he did n't come was because they did n't have a venue large enough , because people would want to come from all over Europe . |
| 4 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 5 | At first they suffered great privations — mainly because they did n't have a permanent supply of drinking water — but recently a well has been dug , and today they have houses and solar electricity . |
| 6 | They were the better kind that managed that because they did n't have much money to buy them , so . |
| 7 | ‘ In the end , they told me to give him a bottle because he was too hungry to feed properly , but looking back I 'm sure it was because they did n't have time to help me ; and after two days I had to go home because they needed the bed . |
| 8 | Well I 've ordered it at the library because they did n't have , they used to , but it 's gone . |
| 9 | No , I just find that really difficult because they did n't have the means at that time to achieve it . |
| 10 | And I think the reason for that was because they did n't have a say in what was happening . |
| 11 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 12 | Well I did n't think they could 've gone straight into socialization because they did n't have the resources to . |
| 13 | It is the cynicism in the design process that offends me ; the suggestion that there 's no point in designing anything special for the working classes because they do n't have any taste . |
| 14 | Students say that pedalling helps their concentration — they have to use their brains because they do n't have hands free to open dictionaries — and that the class helps to reduce the boredom of pedalling for an hour . |
| 15 | It 's fairy story nonsense , the very idea of their existence in these days when people are dying daily because they do n't have enough money to operate one radiator in the house , to me , is immoral . |
| 16 | The groundmass crystals form when the lava cools on reaching the surface , so the individual crystals are tiny , simply because they do n't have the time to grow any larger in the relatively short period that the flow takes to cool . |
| 17 | Their rates tend to be lower because they do n't have to pay commission to middlemen . |
| 18 | ‘ Scotland should think about him because they do n't have players who can go past defenders . |
| 19 | They do n't have the time or the resources , and that may be because they do n't have enough people at partner level to cope with the organisation that training involves . ’ |
| 20 | They are called ‘ unconditioned ’ because they do n't have to be learned . |
| 21 | It 's like people are creating fake heroes because they do n't have any real ones . |
| 22 | I say ‘ certain ’ because they do n't have to try all that hard : there appears to be a steady supply of scientists , both American and British , who , along with associates not necessarily involved in direct research at all , are perfectly willing to sell the Soviets anything they want — provided , that is , the price is right . |
| 23 | Because they do n't have much metal at their disposal , Forest Goblins also like to use bones and teeth to make armour as well as for decoration . |
| 24 | People who say they sell drugs because they do n't have enough money , I think they 're lying . |
| 25 | A common reaction from viewers of filmed classes is that they ca n't assess what they see because they do n't have enough information about the class . |
| 26 | They 're all added in just because they do n't have an accident does n't might go for making it the safest infrastructure perhaps . |
| 27 | All the crew here think the Indians are fantastically primitive just because they do n't have radios . |
| 28 | I think they 're fantastically advanced and mature because they do n't have radios . |
| 29 | Erm but I must say that I know the view of erm both Ray and Cynthia is that they have a lack of management time in relation to the other two divisions , because they do n't have the assistant divisional manager post . |
| 30 | Most women only have two or three abortions because they do n't have much sex — perhaps just once a month . |