Example sentences of "not [verb] i have " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan .
2 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 .
3 I do not think I have the strength .
4 My ears were burning , and my left shin throbbed as if it did not know I had stopped walking .
5 He did not know I had read his notes and I did not confess I had , but he elaborated on what I had read , and I was convinced he had right on his side — if not prudence .
6 ‘ Now will you wait for me here in the dark till I take back the keys , and not imagine I 've locked you in to starve ?
7 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 . ’
8 I could not believe I had actually done it .
9 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 .
10 I hope you will not mind me having circulated this letter to Wales four MEPs , since I am sure they will be concerned to hear of these difficulties .
11 He did not know I had read his notes and I did not confess I had , but he elaborated on what I had read , and I was convinced he had right on his side — if not prudence .
12 And the fact that I will be playing under him as captain on an England tour for the first time will not stop me having dinner and drinking with him most nights .
13 But that 's it , I 'm not buying I 've got a couple of boxes of chocolates we bought from Tescos did n't we ?
14 ‘ It is always nice to beat Boris although I am not saying I have proved I am a better player , ’ said the 24-year-old Stich .
15 But — hoo-ha ! — this does not mean I have to stay in one particular mirror .
16 ‘ But it is not affecting me to have to do the job I have been given .
17 I did not realise I had hurt you . ’
18 As I think he might not let me have my half-hour in midmorning if he let me go out earlier , I do n't insist . )
19 Carol did not let me have a key of my own .
20 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 .
21 However , despite the fact that I had to pay for the survey , the society will not allow me to have a copy of the report .
22 ‘ Let's not pretend I had a choice .
23 There was neither an immediate protestation nor confirmation from Charlie ; then he said , ‘ No ; I have never wanted anyone else ; but that 's not to say I 've never had needs , and they had to be met .
24 That 's not to say I have n't had needs , and they had to be met , she thought .
25 ‘ It was a trickle of a stream and I did not say I 'd broken every bone , just hurt my leg .
26 I have updated the models many times over the years , but I can not say I have made a fortune from my knitting .
27 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 .
28 I have tried to hide it , but I did not imagine I had been entirely successful . ’
29 He would n't make me have my birthday party in the rumpus-room with the girls .
30 AUDREY Do n't make me have an affair YOU AND YOUR LOOKS SPECIAL 50 ways to look GREAT this summer
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