Example sentences of "did n't have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make . |
| 2 | She realized as he started to load the projector that he probably did n't have many people to talk to . |
| 3 | ‘ He wanted to know what my motive was , and I said I did n't have many , and he said that would n't wash usually , but perhaps in this case . ’ |
| 4 | Er , you 'd never got er you 'd never got enough er if you 'd got a rifle , er you did n't have many rounds of ammunition , and things like this , you see . |
| 5 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 6 | Of course , people would do as much as they could on their own , partly because it was n't easy to send for a vet in a faraway place like Baldersdale , which did n't have many telephones , and partly because of the expense . |
| 7 | but we did n't have many of them , we only had about two or three come up and they came from Australia |
| 8 | And Charles did n't have many others . |
| 9 | Did n't have many friends . ’ |
| 10 | She did n't have many friends and not much of a social life . |
| 11 | But in those days you did n't have many visitors at all . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't believe it , ’ Bernice said , coming to the conclusion that the khthons did n't have many cinemas . |
| 13 | They did n't have many . |
| 14 | Well , you were talking flying the horses around putting them in horses boxes well in those days they did n't have many vehicles did they ? |
| 15 | we did n't have many bookings , |
| 16 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 17 | Also , it can not be ignored that Marco did n't have many options , since Eddie was about to kill him , and Marco 's actions were in self-defence : I think that Marco may only have beaten Eddie up had he not drawn the knife , but not killed him . |
| 18 | No we did n't actually , we did n't have many , nearly all , nearly all the were . |
| 19 | I did n't have many did I ? |
| 20 | Yes I know , they did n't have many . |
| 21 | did n't have many of them with ours . |
| 22 | Ken Vasey did n't have to make a save in the first half , did n't really have to did n't give Charlton a chance , and even in the second half when Charlton came forward more and more , they did n't really have any chances erm one that Lee volleyed over the bar , one that was headed over the crossbar , and the chance that went in the net , so they still did n't have many chances , but erm United somehow erm construed to drop two points , and erm yes , dreadfully disappointing . |
| 23 | Yeah and , and if you could , I mean the thing is , if you 're , if er , if we did n't have each other to go off with erm it would have made everything for us a lot different , I mean okay we 're lucky we 're in a situation where we do know a lot of people who are , who are like- minded |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe he did n't have good bulbs , ’ said William . |
| 25 | As Distillery manager Billy Hamilton said before a clash with the Glens : ‘ I have yet to send my team out against a Glentoran side which did n't have eleven household names in it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Anna did n't have millions . |
| 27 | When I was a kid , I was very short-sighted and they did n't have compulsory eye tests at school until I was seven . |
| 28 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 29 | I did n't have a Valium injection and I did n't have laughing gas ( who needs that when you 've got an entertaining toothbrush ? ) , and I did n't cry or faint or bite the hygienist or do any of the things normally associated with one of my trips to the dentist . |
| 30 | er , but , the logical consequence of that is if you did n't have current figures the existing brochure if used might mislead |