Example sentences of "that i did not have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
| 2 | Three o'clock — I just finish off everything that I did not have time to do . |
| 3 | My father worked so hard that I did not have to give too much of my ‘ dole ’ money to housekeeping . |
| 4 | How shocking : but I have always thanked God that I did not have ‘ sensible ’ parents . |
| 5 | Reading in a Sunday paper ( Sunday Mail , 7th September 1975 ) about a borstal boy being visited by the Glasgow Gay Advisory Service ( CGAS ) made tangible the knowledge that I did not have to seek out lurid London clubs to find other women like myself . |
| 6 | I am not quite sure who it was I sat next to because I am such a slow eater that I did not have much time for conversation . |
| 7 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I enjoyed Richard who was a casual , almost brutal lover , his desire rising and spending itself as impatiently as mine , so that I did not have to suffer all that tedious , preliminary business of fondling and stroking , and I enjoyed my baby , which surprised me as I had not expected to . |
| 10 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I assured him that I did not have the slightest idea where the Derby Cup was and had not made away with it . |
| 13 | ‘ I was sure that I did not have a place in either male or female worlds , ’ she told me . |
| 14 | They were interested in my opinions but not my circumstances , so that I did not have to invent any tales about my past . |