Example sentences of "we do [not/n't] have " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the time we did n't have massive arguments about it . |
| 32 | ‘ After a time demand just kept growing and growing and we did n't have the finance to boost production to keep pace with it . |
| 33 | So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night . |
| 34 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | We did n't have television , of course . |
| 37 | ( We did n't have warrant cards then . ) |
| 38 | We did n't have the time or energy to pay much attention to the other theatres of war , unless we had someone out there . |
| 39 | We did n't have ‘ team spirit ’ any more , ( Miss Brodie would have been proud of us ! ) . |
| 40 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied , ‘ we had speech , but we did n't have as many words and names for things as you have now . |
| 41 | ( Fortunately we did n't have this problem . ) |
| 42 | I remember that we did n't have a tap in the house but used a communal tap from which we had to fill two barrels in our garden . |
| 43 | We did n't have much time for subtle distinctions down in East Oxford . |
| 44 | If we did n't have butchers to do the necessary , we 'd be vegetarians out of sheer ineptitude . |
| 45 | At Low Birk Hatt we did n't have Christmases in the generally accepted sense . |
| 46 | We did n't have parties , nor did we celebrate my birthday as most children do . |
| 47 | We then found that we did n't have enough cash to pay the landing fees , and in response I offered Portuguese escudos , converting at the rate in the newspaper . |
| 48 | We did n't have any definite , set plans as to what we wanted to do with the record . |
| 49 | ‘ The band had only been together a couple of months before we started recording that album , so we did n't have time to think about it too much — we just went in and did it . |
| 50 | Father was a Methodist minister and we did n't have a TV set at home until I was 18 . |
| 51 | Carmen , 22 , a part-time waitress , added : ‘ I 'm relieved we did n't have to go through the anguish that these other parents must be enduring . |
| 52 | It just seemed weird to me that we did n't have a clue about the line-up . |
| 53 | ‘ There is a brilliant atmosphere at the club now and when I was at Forest we did n't have this sort of camaraderie . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ At that time , the Japanese economy was very bad , we did n't have money and it was a kind of dream that we would be able to spend a couple of years outside Japan . ’ |
| 55 | We did n't have the usual Sunday dinner but fish finger and beans make a change . |
| 56 | Unfortunately , we did n't have a very happy working relationship . |
| 57 | We did n't have much to do , just sit at a table or something , and when it 's over I go outside and sit in the car , and Peckinpah comes out and gives me this look . |
| 58 | When we were born we did n't have this difficulty — we did things how we felt like , when we felt like and where we felt like . |
| 59 | No one was at home when we came out of school so we did n't have to explain where we were going . |
| 60 | We did n't have time to get to know one another well . |