Example sentences of "[pron] had not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's about all I can tell you about that , but er it makes you wonder whether I had n't better keep out of Street , does n't it ? |
| 2 | I hoped Doone would net him soon , but I had n't much faith . |
| 3 | I had n't much more time to think about him at that moment , because a large black car swept past the open windows with Laura at the wheel . |
| 4 | I agreed ; I had n't much choice . |
| 5 | Well I had n't much choice have I ? |
| 6 | I had n't enough money to get there by conventional means but no matter . |
| 7 | I had n't any LM so gave Mill 6C which stopped the haemorrhaging but led to such severe abdominal pains the GP was called . |
| 8 | I 'm not suited to fatherhood and I had n't any wish to be made ridiculous by paternity suits . |
| 9 | ‘ I had n't any idea you would call yourself a humanist . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 11 | Anyway , of course I had n't any . |
| 12 | I had n't any idea what he was talking about but I listened attentively to his description of lands I had never imagined , with their dark green forests , snowy slopes and frozen lakes . |
| 13 | ‘ I had n't any idea ! |
| 14 | But I had n't any choice . |
| 15 | I mean I had n't any worries . |
| 16 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 17 | I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest . |
| 18 | I wish I had not such an account of grumpiness to give you . |
| 19 | As the clouds of imminent civil war gathered , Pelham hastened back to Hull where he later wrote : ‘ I kept the King out of Hull when he came in person ( although I had not such instructions from the House ) — where was a very great magazine in which I suppose I saved the State above £100,000 … |
| 20 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 21 | It was fun being whisked to Plymouth , though she had n't much in common with this well-meaning but heavy family . |
| 22 | She had n't much stomach for torn flesh or pecked eyes streaming blood . |
| 23 | And she had n't much of that , but more than before and she could think as she worked . |
| 24 | Short of making an embarrassing scene , she had n't much option . |
| 25 | She had n't much to tell him — merely that she had stopped on the bridge for a moment to look at the river , had been attracted by the gulls and then noticed what was exciting them . |
| 26 | Maggie went across to him quickly , trying hard to think of something to take his mind off his sister 's minor crime , but she had n't much chance of that . |
| 27 | She had n't last time I , cos we were talking about er when I say talking I do n't mean nastily but the last time I saw Janet I asked after Wendy and she said she was still working and enjoying her job and the children were growing up and she did n't mention any other children so cos her husband works away a lot of the year does n't he ? |
| 28 | At the time when Shanti was preoccupied with the subject of identity , she expressed the thought that she had n't any choice in the matter : we had taken her whether she liked it or not . |
| 29 | ‘ The single ? ’ he 'd said , knowing that she had n't any money . |
| 30 | No , she had n't any friends , because he would n't like it . |