Example sentences of "never had [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I was born wi I never had much hair .
2 He never had much enthusiasm for making money .
3 The Communist Party never had much influence on Tyneside other than among seamen .
4 ‘ We never had much money !
5 But they brothers never had much luck . ’
6 But like I said before , they Glynns never had much luck .
7 Dawn Run ( twice ) Street Angel and Atha Cliath were all Mullins winners there but he never had much luck in the National .
8 Although she was penniless , she managed to get back to England : Margery never had much difficulty in finding people who would give her money to go a long , long way away .
9 She never had much time for me before . ’
10 She 'd been a sort of feminist before it became fashionable ; never had much time for all that sisterly stuff , but she was positive she was as good as any man and she 'd prove it …
11 ‘ I never had much time for him when he was young , but I never guessed he 'd do anything as rotten as this ! ’
12 friend of ours , he , he hit his tooth , got a lovely tooth Ken he 's sixty one now , never had much trouble you know
13 Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact .
14 He never had much regard for the damage drinking could cause him , yet oddly enough he did about others .
15 And I mean there are lots of things now er which er how can I say I never had much interest before erm never thought th that they when you 've seen the help in hand they 've dished out erm , S D P , the erm oh the Council of Churches which you know never There are all sorts of erm I tell you another people and erm I sha the Gay and Lesbian Society you know , people take them er lightly but er it makes you sit up and and think now .
16 In any event he never had much stomach for serious campaigning .
17 ‘ He never had many friends , you know .
18 Connery never had such help .
19 Dona never had that problem because during her affair she entered a new and secret world that was so different from her other life .
20 ‘ All my school life , I was under the impression I was not completely stupid but pretty dumb so I never had that oomph .
21 The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening .
22 Those who bemoan the weakening of the governmental role of parliaments are not only failing to bear English history in mind where Parliament never had that role , they are forgetting continental history as well .
23 I never I never had that feeling .
24 It 's all so easy for him , perhaps that 's why he squandered his talent — he never had that period of garret starvation that seems to foster genius . ’
25 I 've had tons of guitars , but never at the same time — I never had enough money to have them all at once . ’
26 Never had enough fun , thinks there 's something endemically wrong with the pleasure principle .
27 Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order .
28 ‘ I knew he was on the take , but I never had enough evidence to show Hamilton .
29 It seemed that bingo afternoons left her so exhausted both physically and emotionally that she never had enough energy left to cook an evening meal .
30 His replacement , former sales manager Nils Sontag , never had enough time to lick the company into shape .
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