Example sentences of "n't have the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't have the courage to do that , Dorothy . ’ |
| 3 | I did n't have the faintest idea how this girl could help me but I knew that she was going to try . |
| 4 | But she did n't have the nerve . |
| 5 | ‘ I bought Picnic because Nick Skelton told me to , he knew I did n't have the biggest cash flow in the world , ’ Steven Smith said of a horse whose awkward streak would have been reflected in the price . |
| 6 | The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered . |
| 7 | But they did n't have the Blind Lemon album in the shop . |
| 8 | It appeared piecemeal because — despite the takings of a Saturday — they just did n't have the finance to cover that kind of operation . |
| 9 | I have become convinced that our whole approach is hopelessly unscientific , in fact wrong , and particularly that my own reconstruction is so fundamentally flawed that we really do n't have the right to be displaying it anywhere except in a Disneyland type of amusement park . ’ |
| 10 | The trouble about starting a very small business is that it 's difficult to do things of any great originality , because you do n't have the buying power or maybe the manufacturing base to really get the thing off the ground . |
| 11 | I suppose the most recent lesson is that if you merge with a company you do n't have the same opportunities for changing its culture as you do if it 's a take-over . |
| 12 | It was n't because we did n't have the talent . |
| 13 | The country did n't have the will to do it and the politicians did n't have the will to do it . |
| 14 | The country did n't have the will to do it and the politicians did n't have the will to do it . |
| 15 | Roddick merely called it ‘ self-financing ’ , because she did n't have the capital to do it any other way . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , that uncle of yours did n't have the manners to write , never mind the decency to come ; but I 've long learned never to expect anything from an ass but a kick . ’ |
| 17 | The instruments do n't have the same clarity as the Calibra 's and some of the Corrado 's switches are masked by the wheel . |
| 18 | If I ask for extra to buy baby clothes , he says he does n't have the spare cash . |
| 19 | I 'd know where I lived if I saw it , but just at the moment I ca n't remember the name of the street it 's in , and the policeman would n't know if I do n't have the address . |
| 20 | BR customers often do n't have the choice . |
| 21 | Only then do you understand the heartache of women whose pregnancies end in disaster or those who ca n't have the baby they want . |
| 22 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 23 | But if Rank controlled the source of the more creative ideas , his company did n't have the management necessary to ensure the continuance of his production policy . |
| 24 | The production does n't have the imagistic verve of Adrian Noble 's great Royal Exchange version in l980 but it is beautifully acted and rivets our attention on the fierce particularity of Webster 's language . |
| 25 | They do n't have the tradition we have . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't have the slightest desire to see the restitution of my father 's property , ’ he added in that 1968 interview , and ‘ I was always in favour of socialism in the sense of nationalisation of major means of production . ’ |
| 27 | At one point he said he wanted something and DeFries said ‘ No , you ca n't have it — you do n't have the money . ’ |
| 28 | I remember David had a look of amazement on his face because at this point he had quite a few gold albums , but he still did n't have the money because the rate that they made money went straight back into making the show even bigger and better , and everybody travelled in style . |
| 29 | He did n't have the medals . |
| 30 | The executive committee wo n't go along with something which does n't have the support of the US divisions . |