Example sentences of "had not have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapman , a Yorkshireman , had not had much success as a player , but he shone as a manager , first with Huddersfield and then with Arsenal , where he had a salary of £2,000 a year and wrote a column for the Sunday Express into the bargain . |
| 2 | He had not had much hope that they would rent the garage to a teenager , since teenagers were regarded generally as being as reliable as something out of the zoo . |
| 3 | He had not had much time or energy to expend on such matters , and was quite happy to cover familiar , or at least already prepared , ground . |
| 4 | Although he himself had not had much formal education , he was literate , well read and articulate . |
| 5 | Fleet operators appear to have felt that the raids had not had much effect on operations there and it was rumoured that the National Iranian Oil Company ( NIOC ) was managing to improvise , using storage tanks on the mainland . |
| 6 | Of course , she reminded herself sternly , that was just proof that she had not had many sensual encounters . |
| 7 | Paddy Mayne , however , had not had such good luck . |
| 8 | He must listen attentively to the tales of how the amateur would have broken sixty-five in a competition last Saturday if he had not had such disgusting luck on the greens . |
| 9 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 10 | There were five informal carers who said at their first interviews they would prefer the dementia sufferer to be in an institution but who had not had that preference fulfilled a year later ( Table 5.6 : three in the action samples , two in control ; four in Ipswich , one in Newham ) . |
| 11 | The publicity for The Silence of the Lambs produced not only a successful ‘ book of the film ’ by Thomas Harris , but a success for an earlier book of his which , although filmed , had not had any impact at the box-office . |
| 12 | Dement and Wolpert obtained REM-awakening reports from volunteers who had not had any fluid intake for at least twenty-four hours . |
| 13 | She had not had any idea of leaving her family in Iran . |
| 14 | Takeshita appeared before the budget committee on Nov. 26 and gave two hours of sworn testimony to the effect that he had not had any dealings with organized crime . |
| 15 | The labels which Darwin had attached to them did not say where the specimens were found ; he simply had not had any reason at the time to think that geography was important . |
| 16 | We dealt direct with BSI at Milton Keynes for whom it was also a new experience — they had not had any previous registrations from purley health-based organizations . |
| 17 | And she had asked him what would have happened to her if she had not had these good friends who had come to her aid and given her shelter , and when , in the form of an excuse , his answer had been , did n't she realize that he was distracted ? she had come back with , did n't he realize he had almost killed a man , that he was lucky he was n't in gaol now answering a charge of murder ? |
| 18 | In September 1989 Chadli announced the postponement of local elections , originally scheduled for December , following complaints from the opposition parties that they had not had enough time to prepare for them . |
| 19 | According to a radio commentary on Aug. 7 , there were complaints from the opposition that they had not had enough time to campaign effectively , and instances were cited of bullying by MPRP election supervisors . |
| 20 | Ruling that the UK had breached international agreements , the judges dismissed the British government 's contention that it had not had enough time to meet standards set in 1975 . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it will be a much easier horse to handle , for example to catch , than if it had not had this early contact with people . |
| 22 | Mr Clayton had not had this evidence , and nor , claimed the Chief Executive , had he said so to the journalists . |
| 23 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 24 | If he had not had this picture in his mind , he might inadvertently have written in a way that tried to satisfy different types of individual in the same book . |
| 25 | Debbie , who has a daughter with spina bifida , had not had this test and only discovered her baby 's condition when she was nearly eight months pregnant . |
| 26 | But if we had not had this event we would n't have had those problems.Its the issue of New Age Travellers and illegal parties that produce what you saw last night . ’ |
| 27 | I am not alone in believing that the result of both world wars could have been very different if we had not had those effective territorial forces in place in 1914 and 1939 . |
| 28 | If only I had n't had that last cup of hot chocolate . |
| 29 | I still had n't had that moment of awakening , satori , enlightenment . |
| 30 | Well , that 's true , of course , but after all , I would be a different person if I had n't had that sort of childhood . |