Example sentences of "[pron] did [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |
| 2 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
| 3 | I fingered heavy silver and amber necklaces with starting prices of £200 but I did not have the patience or the energy to haggle down to the real price . |
| 4 | As I did not have a woman companion , they tended to ignore me , but I called to one and bought a little bouquet to put in my hotel bedroom 's tooth-glass . |
| 5 | I knew I was being bewitched , laid under a spell so intensely personal , so thrilling , I did not have the power to resist it , or to judge if it were good or evil . |
| 6 | Goethe once said : ‘ I would be able to commit all crimes in my life if I did not have the possibility to express them . ’ |
| 7 | I did not have to pay for this copy , so there is no need for you to send any money . |
| 8 | And he had once elicited from her the statement , ‘ I did not have what the English refer to as ‘ a good war ’ . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I could have run faster but I did not have the confidence to go at 14 miles , ’ said Evans . |
| 10 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 11 | I started this case with 0/6 because I did not have the 0/1 in stock . |
| 12 | Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time . |
| 13 | When I said I did not have the sum he drew me even further into a corner . |
| 14 | I did not have the nerve to mention this to Owen 's parents — a failing on my part . |
| 15 | It looked a pleasant enough place in which to spend a period of compulsory leisure and I was glad I did not have to share it with anyone . |
| 16 | Useful though it may have been , I never tried that approach ; I did not have the heart , and I was sure that I always had to leave my intended customer a face-saving way out . |
| 17 | Three o'clock — I just finish off everything that I did not have time to do . |
| 18 | My father worked so hard that I did not have to give too much of my ‘ dole ’ money to housekeeping . |
| 19 | How shocking : but I have always thanked God that I did not have ‘ sensible ’ parents . |
| 20 | Reading in a Sunday paper ( Sunday Mail , 7th September 1975 ) about a borstal boy being visited by the Glasgow Gay Advisory Service ( CGAS ) made tangible the knowledge that I did not have to seek out lurid London clubs to find other women like myself . |
| 21 | I am not quite sure who it was I sat next to because I am such a slow eater that I did not have much time for conversation . |
| 22 | I did not have enough knowledge to enable me to make a complete computer model of the individual player 's contribution to the stroke . |
| 23 | I only know I did not have much fun this summer . ’ |
| 24 | If I did not have to involve one of the registrars or consultants my throughput increased . |
| 25 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 26 | I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise . |
| 27 | I enjoyed Richard who was a casual , almost brutal lover , his desire rising and spending itself as impatiently as mine , so that I did not have to suffer all that tedious , preliminary business of fondling and stroking , and I enjoyed my baby , which surprised me as I had not expected to . |
| 28 | Since he was often late home anyway , I did not have to feel guilty about him . |
| 29 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 30 | Second , Fuchs blamed the deficit on the museum 's poor administrative structure , ‘ I did not have a system which enabled me to accept responsibility for the financial affairs of the museums ’ . |