Example sentences of "she [modal v] [not/n't] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If she may n't have a dram , ’ James said , ‘ What might I tempt her with ? |
| 2 | It was Grizel Huntley 's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior , and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well . |
| 3 | She should still have been able to get a seat , but she should not have a carriage practically to herself . |
| 4 | He thought she might not have a heart , or tried to explain away her indifference by imagining she were made of obsidian through and through . |
| 5 | However , she recently asked what it was all for if she could not have a child . |
| 6 | She could n't have er she could n't have a feather pillow . |
| 7 | Ours , this one , she left her kids and they have n't got a television , she would n't have a television in her house |
| 8 | She would n't have a dog about the place . ’ |
| 9 | She would not have a claim for the loss of her child . |
| 10 | Here , too , to call a woman ‘ barren ’ , or even ‘ childless ’ , implies that — whether she ca n't have a child or simply does n't want one — she is somehow wrong and unnatural . |
| 11 | He 's practically crippled that oldest lad of his , and him not ten yet , and she wo n't have a word said against him . |
| 12 | My friend , Alison , who 's going to adopt … well , she wo n't have a nanny . |