Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had n't [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I mean I had n't any worries .
2 and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago
3 He claimed he had n't any but he jolly well had !
4 I I I just wonder what the opposition would think if you decided that the criteria approach alone was not acceptable and you equally decided you had n't enough information to specify a location , where would that leave you ?
5 I it , it was , it was alright f for people wh who were used to that sort of thing but I mean they had n't all the mechanization in the mines then that they have now .
6 She knew she had n't any choice anyhow but to agree .
7 I — I somehow thought you had n't any , like me , you know . ’
8 She said she had n't any but they would n't listen .
9 She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place .
10 He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh .
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