Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not even say goodbye . |
| 2 | One may ask what account the firm took of the duties it owed of confidentiality and good faith , bearing in mind that , far from inquiring whether the BR board would object , it did not even say what it was doing . |
| 3 | It did not also say that Mr Major was yet much of a Prime Minister . |
| 4 | A CBS spokesman did not exactly say ‘ Bollocks ! ’ when we phoned to ask him if it was true — but his denial implied that he reckoned our enquiry was testicular in the extreme . |
| 5 | A CBS spokesman did not exactly say ‘ Bollocks ! ’ when we phoned to ask him if it was true — but his denial implied that he reckoned our enquiry was testicular in the extreme . |
| 6 | Jesus did not actually say that John would survive until the Second Coming , but , ‘ If it is my will that he remain until I come , what is that to you ? ’ ( 21:23 ) . |
| 7 | She did not actually say , ‘ she would have to be different ’ , but the implication was unmistakable . |
| 8 | During his 30-minute speech , the hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East did not once say where the money for his proposals — other than those on training and investment — would come from . |
| 9 | All of these problems , falling within the sphere of legitimate unrest , could be dealt with , he believed , by intelligent and sympathetic administrators — were indeed assumed to be , though he did not explicitly say so , their bread and butter : he himself had dealt superlatively with the Punjab rent agitations of 1931 . |
| 10 | He did not quite say , ‘ Jairmany calling ! |
| 11 | The SSC also apparently got differing accounts of the project 's finances ; the participants in L* did not always say the same thing as the management . |
| 12 | The engine produces an uneven cacophony of rattles , misfires and exhaust bark which , together with the odd puff of oil smoke from the crankcase breather , do not exactly say to a pilot , ‘ You can trust me , chief ’ , nor instil any confidence in the outcome of the next few minutes . |
| 13 | They do not therefore say that they need fewer teachers . |
| 14 | We do not always say what we mean to say , and leave ourselves open to misinterpretation . |
| 15 | We find that this system works well : it avoids some of the problems arising from personalities , and it seems to be welcomed by all concerned even though self-selected referees do not always say what they are supposed to ! |
| 16 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 17 | And what and surely you did n't just say nothing to that ? |
| 18 | They did n't just say you know , er er er |
| 19 | I was so cowed that I did n't even say who I was ; I pretended to be her . |
| 20 | Okay well they 're two completely different spelling different things and you got them bot right I did n't I did n't help you I did n't even say and think about which sort of bean you 're using or anything like that did I . |
| 21 | Stella hoped he might ask her to go with them but he did n't even say good-bye , not properly , let alone wish her a Merry Christmas . |
| 22 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 23 | He did n't even say hello , merely demanded , ‘ Give Victor a shout , Christina . |
| 24 | She did n't even say , This is what it is . |
| 25 | ‘ You did n't even say anything to Barbara Coleman ? ’ |
| 26 | He did n't even say goodbye . ’ |
| 27 | , no she did , she I did n't even say who I was , she just knew the way I spoke she said you 're from T N T are n't you ? |
| 28 | down n yeah she was dressed sat down and ha she did n't even , she walked past Auntie Alice , she did n't even say good morning grandma good morning nan or anything . |
| 29 | The doctor did n't even say six month . |
| 30 | Yeah , you did n't even say |