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 . ’
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