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

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1 " Would you have me get a heart attack just because you have n't the sense to put on a dress fitting for your age ? "
2 I 'd just forced myself to drive , for the first time in my life , in a country where they have n't the sense to drive on the proper side of the road .
3 ‘ You 're greedy but you have n't the sense to see how to make money .
4 God I have n't the buyer 's guide and all that bit just went straight over my head that 's .
5 ‘ Well , they have n't the structure of a lawyer 's work , ’ she said .
6 ‘ You have n't the experience .
7 Rutherford once quipped ‘ we have n't the money , so we 've got to think ’ .
8 To see a shop window full of goods when you have n't the money to buy is n't much fun . ’
9 I ca n't get out and I have n't the money to do it .
10 Well , I have n't the money to get you drunk every time I want you to love me . ’
11 Have n't the money , ’ said Owen , remembering the Curbash Compensation Fund with bitterness .
12 Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them .
13 Captain McArthur said , ‘ Typewriters have n't the romance of Shopgirls .
14 You know with the and when she does n't know where she 's going to get enough money to feed , clothe them and especially at a time like now , when all these adverts are on television for , you know the toys that children want , and they just have n't the ability to provide those those things for the children , much as they would want to do it .
15 So they get thrown when faced with a canvas which represents nothing other than form or shape or colour and they get thrown because they have n't the vocabulary , it seems to them , to respond to it , and they feel the need to respond verbally .
16 ‘ Maybe , but I have n't the patience any more .
17 The reason for building a high mutation rate into the model is that the whole performance on the computer screen is for the benefit of human eyes , and humans have n't the patience to wait a million generations for a mutation !
18 But now we have n't the stop to prevent our timber sliding as we try to gauge it .
19 Most mothers have n't the heart to deny their children the care and comfort they have given them all their lives and many continue to run round them long after they are old enough to look after themselves .
20 But I have n't the heart to drive him back to the warren .
21 The matron , seeing my Lady took an interest in the place , pointed out a girl to her , named Rosanna Spearman , and told her a most miserable story : which I have n't the heart to repeat here ; for I do n't like to be made wretched without any use , and no more do you .
22 It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator .
23 I have n't the heart to tell her I do n't like them . ’
24 Sadly , we have n't the manpower to check on the honesty of the replies we get .
25 Even if they can produce more food , they have n't the transport or the packaging facilities .
26 Even when I 'm on days I have n't the cash to go gallivanting up West every night . ’
27 We have n't the room , you see . ’
28 ‘ Well , I have n't the fondness for her I have for Helen , ’ Julia said diplomatically .
29 I have n't the right to ask you to pay such a price . "
30 ‘ Why ca n't I keep away from you , ’ he demanded , ‘ when I know damned well I have n't the right — ’ He did n't finish his sentence .
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