Example sentences of "even have the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm upset , as you put it , because you did n't even have the courtesy to warn me that I might not be giving a lecture that 's due in eight days ’ time . |
| 2 | The truth was I really fancied going there but I did n't even have the money to bunk the tube . |
| 3 | He may even have the town named after him . |
| 4 | By the law of the land , not only does he possess none of it , he does not even have the right to own any of it . |
| 5 | The men guilty of these outrages did not even have the excuse of their European counterparts , who could sometimes claim that wartime bombing had flattened the great stations which they were replacing . |
| 6 | Most of their working-class contemporaries , of course , did not even have the opportunity . |
| 7 | I admit I was wrong about the Cairngorms , and I did n't even have the chance to see what was going on behind the plateau to the south . |
| 8 | Although the numbers have fallen in the last decade , a high proportion of the world 's children do not even have the opportunity of having protection from some of the major childhood killers , diseases for which vaccines are available — measles for example is a major cause of childhood mortality . |
| 9 | And because it was never colonised by a European power , it does not even have the conscience of a ‘ mother country ’ to turn to . |
| 10 | Because otherwise we shall not even have the most elementary preconditions for this development … |
| 11 | Often this is because the original advisers are not familiar enough with what is involved in proving a case , and may even have the naive belief that the inherent ‘ sense ’ of their development proposal will somehow be apparent to all . |
| 12 | My feet were sore , I was roasted like Sunday pork , and I did n't even have the money to leap on to one of the buses that flashed past me . |
| 13 | Yet fellow members of a species can understand each other with the greatest of ease , while we may not even have the senses to perceive their communications to each other , let alone understand them . |
| 14 | … we do n't even have the elementary conditions to start to develop our national economy on a large scale . |
| 15 | You do n't even have the sense to know … ’ |
| 16 | You did n't even have the sense to use a false name . |
| 17 | I feel sad for all who did n't attend and for those who do n't even have the chance to attend something similar . |
| 18 | They do n't even have the excuse of poverty for their addiction . ’ |
| 19 | Scotland 's wilderness areas do not even have the advantages of the little protection afforded to the English parks . |
| 20 | And it is n't because the workers wo n't work hard enough , not when three million do n't even have the chance . |
| 21 | As You Like It does n't even have the cinematic crutches of the few Shakespeare movies that have worked — no Henry V trench-warfare here . |
| 22 | And here he was , stuck with a minor policeman who did n't even have the authority to use the exclusive fast-moving middle lane of the road that was available to important officials . |
| 23 | She did n't even have the language . |
| 24 | But would they even have the strength to dig counter-mines ? |
| 25 | Careful build-up of specific links , starting with concentration on one or two connected facts and building up to a complex structure , could be provided by a program — such a program may even have the potential of becoming a generalized structure . |
| 26 | The suite , everything had screw on legs and we bought erm a radiogram , that was a Pye , beautiful thing it was , it was ever so expensive then , I might even have the bill for that somewhere , we bought that at the town centre in Laytoners was it ? |
| 27 | When they met , they might even have the decency to paper the cracks . |
| 28 | Dental surgeons do not even have the cheap finance available to general medical practitioners . |
| 29 | This could even have the elusive and much desired effect of reducing the appeal of smoking as a ‘ grown up ’ activity through reconstructing it as an essentially teenage pursuit . |
| 30 | Because if you do n't get a job you do n't even have the chance of doing the work . |