Example sentences of "do n't have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If you do n't want or do n't have time to haggle , ’ says Mr Latif , ‘ you should make sure you buy your carpet , your jewellery , or your woodwork from a fixed-price store .
2 Could n't be a tally man , either , because the family did n't have owings .
3 Face it if if he did n't have Adam as a friend he 'd be definitely mateless .
4 Dad I did n't have cream on mine .
5 ( RECOVERING A LITTLE ) At least , I did n't have favourites .
6 She bought a steak and kidney pie now then , no she did n't have chips steak and kidney pie and some er couple of iced buns , she bought me a , an ordinary pie .
7 ‘ We did n't have music lessons at my school . ’
8 A week later doctors told Dave Cameron , 47 , he did n't have cancer after all .
9 For instance , we did n't have yardage books when I started , and I learned how to use them .
10 When I was an adolescent , I was worried because I did n't have spots .
11 I did n't have soreness , some tightness perhaps .
12 They did n't have visitors because it sent him into a fury .
13 Soon , though , we hit a Catch-22 : I could get funding for more equipment if there was a ‘ group ’ organised , but no village women wanted to be organised if they did n't have machines .
14 That happened in the ring , we did n't have head-guards in those days .
15 Were n't things when you were a little girl , it did n't have bits like that , a lot of things come in that we did n't use to have
16 ‘ As far as I know he did n't have enemies or friends either , but I did n't know him very well . ’
17 It 's in there because you ca n't have executive style cabinet government in local government unless you pay executive councillors executive salaries , it 's got nothing to do with the idea of you getting thirty five pounds rather than thirty three if we stay here all day erm I would just , I 'm really wisely advised to make one point er Mr er was c wondering why this did n't have majority support actually most of it did I think Mr will confirm that he and his colleagues were happy to support all of the proposed responses from A to J on page thirty and thirty one but were not happy with response B and I would like to er that erm that er when our responses do go forward it is made clear that apart from little paragraph B there was all party support because I really feel that our local authority associates need to know that and erm I hope that will be little B was er a piece that erm certainly I and my colleagues supported er , rather .
18 Then his sister told him gently that schools like his did n't have bells , a bell would lower the tone of the place and put off the parents of prospective pupils .
19 I would have watched it if I did n't have maths .
20 U-boat alley was the gap in mid-Atlantic where they did n't have air cover from Britain or Canada , but Preston always imagined it a bit like the alley at the back of their houses with a U-boat at each end firing torpedoes at Grandad as he hopped and scuttled down it on his way to the Turk 's Head .
21 Yes but she did n't have leukaemia so quickly .
22 And when I first went to the business , they did n't have fruit like they have now , everyday you know .
23 Oh oh yeah well there was no option , you 'd got to cos you dare n't speak you 'd oh er friendly in our lunch break you know er dinner break really we did n't have lunch time erm we were all friendly together and er as I say er we got on alright , but you 'd er you 'd got to stick at your job absolutely you dare n't move oh , they do n't know they are born today
24 My friend , if you did n't have hair at the front
25 unclear get to buy your own I , I er did n't have rubber boots , I had big leather boots up to me thigh , that 's what I bought and that leather then they did n't have nails in the shoes in the , in the bottom they had wooden pegs , so that the , your leather was held by wooden pegs and the and the leather at that time were the thigh boots , you could roll them right the way down , .
26 Bronze Age man did n't have stoppings , he just wore his teeth away .
27 I ye you know being working with me dad on the milk round you did n't have chance to go anywhere an and that 's perfectly true .
28 Speed came on towards the end , but did n't have chance to make much of an impact .
29 ‘ We did n't have chance to talk the other day , as you were so busy , ’ he said , pushing the door to behind him .
30 At Low Birk Hatt we did n't have Christmases in the generally accepted sense .
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