Example sentences of "had not the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The had not the least idea that their love was a crime in people 's eyes . |
| 2 | She had not the least idea of what she should do next , other than perhaps to fasten the strange garment about her waist . |
| 3 | She had not the least idea what was going on , and she was smiling into the night in enquiry and wonder , her brows arched halfway to laughter , her lips parted in a whimsical welcome to whatever might be pending . |
| 4 | To whom , he had not the least idea . |
| 5 | She had not the least interest in the fortunes of Italy , did not care that once more liberty and unity were the watchwords , and it astonished her that Mrs Browning could seem as anxious about war as she did about her sister 's health . |
| 6 | I had not the first notion of mechanics , but you with your capable hands worked on the machine until , after running with it , pushing it along , we were able to make the engine tick over again . |
| 7 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |
| 8 | Although he was a yearling and still below full weight , he had not the harassed look of most " outskirters " — that is , the rank-and-file of ordinary rabbits in their first year who , lacking either aristocratic parentage or unusual size and strength , get sat on by their elders and live as best they can often in the open — on the edge of their warren . |
| 9 | ‘ Naylor ! ’ she sighed again in the utmost rapture , and , clutching him , had not the smallest demur to make when he removed her bra and began to caress the swollen mounds of her pink-tipped breasts . |
| 10 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 11 | The Lost Leader , of course , had not the remotest interest in sport , although she is said to look back wistfully to those distant Lincolnshire days when she would clasp the hand of Alderman Roberts as together they watched the bear-baiting . |
| 12 | While Brunner naturally had not the remotest intention of supporting anything of this kind , his concern for his own kind of natural theology seemed to Barth to be wholly without adequate defences against it . |
| 13 | Had not the Prime Minister himself said , and here I quote : ‘ We would be at the heart of Europe . ’ |
| 14 | She had not the faintest notion . |
| 15 | Because she had not the faintest idea what she would do if she were right . |
| 16 | Mungo nodded , though he had not the faintest idea what she was talking about . |
| 17 | The financial side was something of a problem to Winnie , who had not the faintest idea what should be charged . |
| 18 | Grunte had not the faintest idea whether she had been or not , but the invitation seemed genuine enough . |
| 19 | It would not be eaten — she had not the faintest illusion of that — but it would be looked on and smiled over and would bring back happy memories and it was all she could think of to signify her reborn affection . |
| 20 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 21 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 22 | And it might have been worse had not the greenkeeping staff had wage rises from 2 10s. 0d. to £3 0s. 0d. and £2 0s. 0d. to 2 5s. 0d . |
| 23 | Had not the medieval burial guilds done precisely the same ? |
| 24 | The proceedings were enlivened by an intervention from the producers of King Mob Echo , which would have been Britain 's Situationist paper had not the local branch — if branch is the right word — been excluded by its international secretariat from membership . |
| 25 | Often in the days when she had been touring , had not the same thing happened — and nothing thought of it ? |
| 26 | Conversely , the artist 's large ‘ Allegory of Honesty ’ , of a laurel-crowned female nude clutching a staff and two serpents and holding a hand-mirror aloft ( est. $250–350,000 ) had not the same appeal , and failed at $200,000 ( £133,333 ) . |
| 27 | Had not the American players been prepared to meet their own expenses , which included travel from often distant points of the continent , the game would never have taken place . |
| 28 | In addition there would be religious festivals , a commemoration of some event in the life of the Buddha , or the founding of a monastery , sometimes even a commemoration of the appearance of a nat or spirit , and interestingly the funeral of a monk , a time of great rejoicing and festivity , for had not the holy man entered Nirvana , and he would return no more to the wearisome cycle of human rebirths . |
| 29 | You had not the thin milk of New York and New England from the pap ; and you can therefore keep the environment outside you , and decently objective . |
| 30 | They were warned of the danger of giving credit — or too much credit at any rate — to mostly illiterate other ranks who were here today and gone tomorrow , and allowing them to run up debts which they had not the slightest chance , or intention , of paying . |