Example sentences of "n't have a " in BNC.

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1 You do n't have a family to think about of course , he said .
2 La Fenière does n't have a Michelin star , though it rates 16/20 in the Gault & Millau guide .
3 I do n't see why we ca n't have a proper meal after a do .
4 ‘ The foreign gentleman wo n't have a notion how things are done below stairs .
5 You need to be ‘ with it ’ , because you can never guarantee that you wo n't have a launch failure or end up in a field instead of back where you started .
6 He blew his nose and said : ‘ I do n't have a cold .
7 She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living .
8 ‘ The original sleeping beauty , ’ said John , ‘ only she did n't have a prince to wake her . ’
9 I did n't have a moment to spare . ’
10 ‘ I do n't have a car . ’
11 ‘ You do n't have a car . ’
12 Even if you decide you do n't have a problem now , it makes sense to do all you can to prevent it happening in the future .
13 ‘ He does n't have a Ph.D. , ’ Hogan said .
14 ‘ When I was sacked the workers stopped work — they did n't have a bloody ballot . ’
15 London does n't have a corner on film festivals : in Newcastle , the twelfth Tyneside Film Festival begins tomorrow — with free tickets for Independent readers .
16 When it was being drawn up ‘ we agreed we could n't have a cash limit and we never said there would be a cash limit ’ .
17 And I 'm giving a voice to the hundreds of people who do n't have a voice .
18 In such circumstances one particular recipe takes over , which Easton 's section police call ‘ bluff ’ : ‘ Even though you might n't have a clue , you bluff your way through . ’
19 You ca n't have a human society without crime .
20 Another of the characteristics of ‘ The Thing ’ is that it does n't have a rational cause .
21 It is now virtually impossible for a major London agency to book gigs for many acts who do n't have a record deal .
22 I do n't mean she did n't have a name ; that was her name : ‘ Nothing ’ .
23 Seriously , coal does n't exist outside of a market condition , OK ? and you ca n't have a market condition without someone to extract the damn stuff .
24 ‘ I do n't have a cycle , ’ said Maggie crossly , feeling that her mother ought to have known .
25 ‘ Maggie darling , I do n't have a clue what happened last night , but I think you do . ’
26 It was a conscious choice that I wanted to go into the company , but I did n't have a clear view as to what particular part of the business I was interested in .
27 I do n't have a yacht or a second home , ’ he points out .
28 for example , ICI does n't have a chief executive and operates on a consensus basis with the chairman acting as a primus inter pares .
29 Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them .
30 They do n't have a clue what maintenance of buildings is all about .
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