Example sentences of "i have not " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 2 | In my suggested audition pieces , I have not included any of the well known speeches from such modern classics as Look Back in Anger , by John Osborne , or Roots , by Arnold Wesker although these plays are revived frequently in many theatres . |
| 3 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 4 | If I am bored then I have not found the way to do what I wanted to do . |
| 5 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I have not such pleasure . |
| 7 | As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking . |
| 8 | I have not found one cigarette end or one piece of waste paper . |
| 9 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
| 10 | In showing that cognition as a whole can not be treated behaviouristically , I have not thereby shown that a behaviouristic treatment of sense-experience is false . |
| 11 | Some philosophers might suspect that I have not considered the behaviouristic theories in their most sophisticated form . |
| 12 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 13 | The sceptic might , at this point , complain that while I may have sketched out the functionalist position , I have not provided any convincing arguments as to why one should believe it . |
| 14 | Some manufacturers supply larger handles with larger tools , but I have not found any discomfort with this aspect of the design . |
| 15 | I have not included The Calanques . |
| 16 | I have not reached these conclusions easily ; they involved much discussion and soul-searching . |
| 17 | Despite many years of searching , I have not yet been able to track down any other source of reference on the design and construction of valve pre and power amplifiers . |
| 18 | and I have not thought of |
| 19 | Perhaps they do ; maybe I have not being paying attention ; too busy with the eau-de-vie , anis or grappa . |
| 20 | Emma : My Lord , I have not time to waste on that - I have an interview with Vogue ere midday strikes . |
| 21 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 22 | I have not always found it easy to counter my wife 's complaints that frozen peas have to be eaten the same day . |
| 23 | I had not , I have not to this day , the remotest notion of what they were all doing . |
| 24 | I have not read any new poetry to touch it since the publication of The Everlasting Mercy [ by John masefield ] . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I confess that I have not addressed such a large gathering since I spoke to 40,000 Gujerati buffalo farmers in India in 1980 , and that was a rare experience . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Although I have not seen the report , it does not surprise me that the Rover Group was sold for a song . |
| 27 | ‘ I have not got back to my normal working routine , quite honestly . |
| 28 | The 1966 World Cup winner , starting his caretakership of the Potteries club , said : ‘ I have not been a vulture on Mick 's back — and he knows that . ’ |
| 29 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 30 | Attlee , Churchill , and Eden , as Prime Ministers in the 1950s , could well have repeated Churchill 's own words , uttered during a wartime speech at the Mansion House in the City of London in November 1942 , ‘ I have not become the King 's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire . ' |