Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pers pn] did not have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began by squeezing colour into a small ceramic well palette but found that I did not have enough colour for what I wanted to do . |
| 2 | Sir Robert ruled that it did not have credibility and dismissed the charges without any of the accused having to present a defence . |
| 3 | But as they began to see the possibilities of the data highway , they also realised that they did not have the technical expertise to build the sorts of switched networks necessary to bring it off . |
| 4 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 5 | In mid-July the Croatian authorities announced that they did not have the resources to cope with any more refugees unless substantial help from abroad was forthcoming . |
| 6 | The company had admitted in June that initial results from boreholes drilled in the area showed that it did not have sufficient knowledge of conditions to guarantee safety of the repository . |
| 7 | I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise . |
| 8 | The taxpayer contended that he did not have full information available to enable him to complete the returns . |
| 9 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 10 | She felt that she did not have enough to do . |
| 11 | Old Mother Jacobsen knew that she did not have unlimited time to tell the story of Marie Grubbe to Elisabeth Danziger ; Elisabeth would stay for an hour and then be on her way . |
| 12 | Hitherto , police and local authorities thought that they did not have power to deal with it adequately . |
| 13 | Only a few months ago , Neath borough council complained that it did not have enough money for housing . |
| 14 | He also learned that he did not have to abandon completely his advertising skills . |
| 15 | He was even capable of finding some credit in it for himself : for after all , it proved that he did not have to take every apparently unprotected woman who came into his sights . |
| 16 | The Inland Revenue said that it did not have enough workers to carry out the revaluation in England and Wales , so from that date there were no revaluations of property . |
| 17 | A Cambridge café owner has won an appeal against a £13,500 fine imposed last month under Food Hygiene Regulations , after the judge accepted that she did not have the money to pay it . |