Example sentences of "have not a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRIGHTON : In six verbose years as leader of his party , Neil Kinnock has not a memorable phrase to his credit . |
| 2 | It is clear that the Secretary of State has not a single idea on the issue . |
| 3 | The evidence given to the Select Committee showed that in Norway and Belgium it was the practice to keep in solitary confinement prisoners ( whether sentenced for murder or for other crimes ) who had not a criminal record , but this method was adopted for reformative purposes and for protecting such prisoners from contamination by other prisoners . |
| 4 | The men had not a dry thread on their bodies ; there was not a dugout that could provide dry accommodation . |
| 5 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 6 | They had not a great deal of choice . |
| 7 | Gerald Kaufman , as usual , had not a good word to say for anybody or anything . |
| 8 | He had not a handsome face , but it was better than handsome : being extremely amiable and cheerful . ’ |
| 9 | We were playing a silly game , which had not a tragic outcome — it had , thanks to the mercy of providence , a fortunate outcome — but it had an outcome which is not one which ah statecraft should either aim at or be proud of having achieved . |
| 10 | I am normally a law-abiding citizen but I had not a single scruple . |
| 11 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |
| 12 | You had not a bad skinful yourself last night ! ’ |
| 13 | They were seated now , on Rab 's ruined chairs ; and Rab noticed that Doctor — some surprise — had not a bad leg . |
| 14 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 15 | I have not a strong mind , or will , nor am I unselfish , and so knowing well my faults I ask you to help me . |
| 16 | They may giggle and act as though they have not a serious thought in their heads , but they know exactly what they are up to . |
| 17 | The Yankees went on to assemble an unequalled record of 22 World Series victories ; generations of Sox fans have not a single one to cherish . |
| 18 | ‘ I have not a single novel here . ’ |
| 19 | But the fact remains that , in the matter of Marius Steen 's death , we have not a solitary shred of evidence to go on . |
| 20 | BELVILLE : Pamela , I am thoroughly satisfied with your conduct hitherto and you shall find that you have not a brutal or ungenerous husband . |
| 21 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |