Example sentences of "[that] [pron] do not have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as bizarre to suppose that I do not have a clear idea of a particular causal circumstance , say the one which gives rise to a query on the console of my computer , when I am unable to enumerate its elements . |
| 2 | ‘ Besides , now that I do not have to stop on the way to Paris for lunch I can go later . |
| 3 | The fact that I do not have envelopes causes me physical pain . |
| 4 | Rather than give the Secretary of State expert opinions that I do not have , I suggest that all those involved in the political process here , in Northern Ireland , in the Republic of Ireland and everywhere have a bounden responsibility to start proper negotiations to end the nightmare that continued this weekend . |
| 5 | Let me make it crystal clear — I have done it before and I do not mind doing it again — that I do not have any fundamental or irrevocable objections to timetable motions . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Three o'clock — I just finish off everything that I did not have time to do . |
| 8 | My father worked so hard that I did not have to give too much of my ‘ dole ’ money to housekeeping . |
| 9 | How shocking : but I have always thanked God that I did not have ‘ sensible ’ parents . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I began by squeezing colour into a small ceramic well palette but found that I did not have enough colour for what I wanted to do . |
| 17 | I assured him that I did not have the slightest idea where the Derby Cup was and had not made away with it . |
| 18 | ‘ I was sure that I did not have a place in either male or female worlds , ’ she told me . |
| 19 | They were interested in my opinions but not my circumstances , so that I did not have to invent any tales about my past . |
| 20 | Her emotional maturity should be such that she does not have to gratify personal needs at the patient 's expense . |
| 21 | She longed for a weapon , for even a hairpin , and knowing that she did not have one , she knew too that she was totally defenceless , unarmed and alone . |
| 22 | A Cambridge café owner has won an appeal against a £13,500 fine imposed last month under Food Hygiene Regulations , after the judge accepted that she did not have the money to pay it . |
| 23 | Old Mother Jacobsen knew that she did not have unlimited time to tell the story of Marie Grubbe to Elisabeth Danziger ; Elisabeth would stay for an hour and then be on her way . |
| 24 | That was one of Beatrice 's most tender passages , and it seems impossible that she did not have Modigliani in mind . |
| 25 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 26 | She felt that she did not have enough to do . |
| 27 | It would , she felt , atone for the things she had said and mean that she did not have to talk to Julia about them . |
| 28 | She concentrated on this problem so that she did not have to imagine the people themselves . |
| 29 | Her friends plainly felt sorry for her , a little embarrassed at the fact that she did not have a husband to contribute to the conversation , nor children , nor any of the little ups and downs of family life . |
| 30 | She climbed into the front seat , grateful that she did not have to sit beside Doreen , who would be sure to take the opportunity of snuggling up to Silas . |