Example sentences of "not [vb infin] i have " in BNC.
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1 | But I do not think I have to worry about it — there is , oh there is , there really is , another kind of light between these walls , too luminous for words . |
2 | I do not think I have the strength . |
3 | I can honestly say now I do not feel I have subsequently ever lost a race I would have won had I been allowed to use the whip . ’ |
4 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
5 | But — hoo-ha ! — this does not mean I have to stay in one particular mirror . |
6 | I am so used to leaping from the sensation , the flat circle , to the judgement , a globe , and do it so quickly , that I do not notice I have done it . |
7 | I have updated the models many times over the years , but I can not say I have made a fortune from my knitting . |
8 | About a dozen of the fry were ‘ belly-sliders ’ , something which I attribute to inbreeding , as the problem did not recur when the female was later mated to the wild male ; I can not say I have ever had this particular deformity ( of the swim-bladder , so the fish lack buoyancy ) in any other mouthbrooder . |
9 | No , I do n't think I have ! |
10 | But I do n't think I have missed out on anything . |
11 | I do n't think I have ever before felt quite so much in control and it 's really a powerful sensation … ’ |
12 | ‘ I do n't think I have had the pleasure of meeting you before , ’ she said , transferring Flossie 's lead to her left hand and entangling it dangerously with the milk can , whilst proffering her right . |
13 | Instead reply along the lines of , ‘ I do n't think I have any weaknesses which would affect my ability to do this job ’ . |
14 | I do n't think I have ever hit ‘ The Wall ’ and I try not to go out too fast . |
15 | ‘ I do n't think I have known it this bad at any club in my career , ’ he said . |
16 | ‘ I do n't think I have ever taken a really big decision in my life , ’ Mr Hobbs said . |
17 | ‘ I do n't think I have much else to prove … other than that I want to be the best player in the world . |
18 | However , she has n't let it get to her : ‘ I do n't think I have suffered from the male domination thing as much as other women might because I 'm a belligerent , stubborn , loud-mouthed bastard , basically ! ’ |
19 | It was somewhat surprising , then , that McIlvanney felt uneasy being approached for this profile , apparently for fear that he might be invited to ‘ pontificate , when I really do n't think I have that much to say ’ , It sounded like false modesty , but after he 'd relented , I remembered the long-standing ‘ pin-down ’ policy employed to prevent hubris in sports writers . |
20 | ‘ But that said , if people feel the way they do , if you do n't think I have your best interests at heart , if we are n't all pulling together as one , then I have personally failed . |
21 | I do n't think I have ever seen her so happy . |
22 | I do n't think I have , at least . |
23 | ‘ I do n't think I have anything else planned for tonight . ’ |
24 | GUIL : Do n't think I have n't thought of it . |
25 | ‘ Oh , I do n't think I have the stamina for a full-scale assault . |
26 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
27 | ‘ I do n't think I have ever been so frightened in my life , ’ said Terrie ( who is given to a little hyperbole at times ) . |
28 | I 've been a candidate before , I do n't like to do things badly , since coming into politics I do n't think I have done things badly , I do n't want to fail you and I do n't want you to see me as a failure . |
29 | Erm I do n't think I have got any written down here for you to have a look so I 'll have to write it down for you erm stuff about Stanley knives . |
30 | ‘ I do n't think I have one . ’ |