Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] have a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I could rule Scotland without a man , but I could not have a child without one . |
| 2 | I 'd not have a child at my age . |
| 3 | The doctors told me I would never have a child of my own . |
| 4 | However , she recently asked what it was all for if she could not have a child . |
| 5 | Her nanny , though , was once stopped in the street by someone demanding to know how she could possibly have a child by a black man . |
| 6 | Dawn astonished doctors by becoming pregnant as she waited for a hysterectomy after being told she would never have a child . |
| 7 | Perhaps she would never have a child . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some had lost faith in their marriage , some in hope for promotion , some on discovering that they would never have a child . |