Example sentences of "we [vb past] [not/n't] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bain , who is in charge of the US operations , said : ‘ We did n't have any presence in the specialist medical markets , and pharmaceuticals is a fast-growing business with an ageing Western population and greater choice of drugs to be marketed . |
| 2 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 3 | There are also a lot of advantages in acquisition accountancy which can provide a sort of beer mat for the first years while you are trying to put the businesses together , and of course we did n't have these in the merger . |
| 4 | You 've got to ask yourself what they had that we did n't have . |
| 5 | It was n't because we did n't have the talent . |
| 6 | They have many more management techniques , which we did n't have — which we 've given them — and of course they 've got new ideas coming along as well. , Pearce 's own progression within Esso was a series of the grasped opportunities he talks about enthusiastically . |
| 7 | We did n't have time to play on the beach or in the streets with the other kids . |
| 8 | We did n't have any understanding of the business colleges . |
| 9 | ‘ We did n't have to split up that day . |
| 10 | There was a boy at school who was deaf , but he could read lips so we did n't have to shout . |
| 11 | Normally we 'd buy our meals from the downstairs kitchen , but for breakfast we had our own food so we did n't have to get up till late . |
| 12 | I did little bits to help , like picking up sticks for firewood and fetching water from the well , as we did n't have any electricity or running water . |
| 13 | My elder brother , one of the last O-level year , pretends to sneer at my GCSE passes , but I 'm glad we did n't have to go through all the cramming and regurgitation of the old exams . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ When we played last time we did n't have any problem , but here they tried to unsettle us because they were really frustrated . |
| 15 | I think this was due to the fact that we did n't have 9-to-5 jobs and we were entertainers and could n't possibly manage the £7 a week rent . |
| 16 | We got charge accounts at Max 's Kansas City , we got a charge account with a limousine service — we rode limousines instead of taxis because we did n't have to pay for limousines and we 'd have to pay the taxis — so we were always in limousines . |
| 17 | The room service kind of crept in and since we did n't have any cash , we charged meals . |
| 18 | There was nobody in a position of power in Iran , he believed , but ‘ irrational lunatics ’ , with whom ‘ we did n't have the slightest possibility of getting any kind of an improved relationship ’ . |
| 19 | There is a four-wheel-drive Safrane Quadra but we did n't have one and it wo n't come to Britain , at least not initially . |
| 20 | ‘ Most of the time we were so busy rushing the posters out that we did n't have time to read them or think about what they said , ’ said Mr Mark Roblett , 27 , the elder of the two brothers whose south London company came to the aid of both parties . |
| 21 | The entrepreneurial Elizabeth Taylor ( no relation ) read an article about organic markets in France , les Marches Biologiques , and wondered why we did n't have any here . |
| 22 | ‘ When we heard that some might be communists we decided that we did n't have to take any notice of them anyway . |
| 23 | ‘ But I thought we did n't have a lot of cash left over for publicity ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We needed uplighters , but we did n't have a regular enough ceiling grid for low-voltage halogens , so we had to use high-frequency fluorescents . ’ |
| 25 | Just now we did n't have any name for it at all , and it was just The Bar , like it always was , the bar . |
| 26 | as if we did n't have enough to think about , we also had the performance of the streaker , of course . |
| 27 | For instance , we did n't have yardage books when I started , and I learned how to use them . |
| 28 | At this stage we did n't have a proper school to work in , so most of his education took place out hacking . |
| 29 | At the time we did n't have massive arguments about it . |
| 30 | ‘ After a time demand just kept growing and growing and we did n't have the finance to boost production to keep pace with it . |