Example sentences of "[be] not saying [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Simon Murray , leader of Honour Hong Kong , said : ‘ I am not saying we are over the moon , but it is progress . ’ |
| 2 | I am not saying they 're all pussycats but if you love and respect them , they will return those qualities tenfold . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not saying I believe that . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | I am not saying he might not one day be the best player for England — but at the moment he is n't . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’ |
| 7 | When they complain about ‘ stress ’ they are not saying they want to spend the rest of their lives lazing about in the sun being brought rum bamboozles on a silver tray ( though the idea has its appeal ) . |
| 8 | We are not saying they are vandals , but what will they do ? |
| 9 | We are not saying it is fixed in concrete . |
| 10 | We 're not saying we ca n't we we we 're against proposal we 've had to take on the market person but until that finance situation is eased it 's extremely difficult . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not saying they might think it was one of us ? |
| 12 | Well , er we 're not saying they do n't , er , you , we , we went there to protest nuclear testing , we knew that er you know , we , that that , that protest would be opposed , but now that those people have been seized , er surely the very least they can do is inform us that they 're safe and well , and where they are and what is being intended ; that , that is not , er that is not too much to ask . |
| 13 | " We 're not saying it is , lad . |
| 14 | Erm by saying it 's a priority we 're not saying it 's our only priority , we have a number of priorities and it 's it 's up to us to in debate with the housing corporation er , to come to the best agreements for Harlow . |
| 15 | Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage . |
| 16 | So we 're not saying it 's a question of conscious unconscious , or rigid demarcation where we are actually talking about subtle gradations of consciousness , from complete self conscious awareness at one end , to total loss of all memory of the thing at , at , at the other . |
| 17 | No , we 're not saying it 's the leeway might be important , cos as I said , these choices , and Sandra will agree , there 's only two columns , that is n't gon na increase ! |
| 18 | What sense of the word virtue are we er using this , we 're not saying it 's virtuous and it behaves well . |
| 19 | Well it 's not , they 're not saying it 's solved they 're saying it has to be delayed until it 's actually possible . |
| 20 | You 're not saying she should n't have been allowed to do that , she should have gone to John |
| 21 | ‘ You 're not saying he could n't have had the irritation , the nerve , the strength to strangle her ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 're not saying he came to the salon just for conversation ? ’ |
| 23 | So , so what we 're talking , we 're not saying you know there are groups and there 're individuals and there 's a gap in between , what we 're saying is there 's a kind of continuum from very groupie groups where the individual is , is practically hypnotized by the , by , by , by , by the group to erm more or less complete individualism where individuals belong to , to emotional groups that are very , very weak and where identification with the with the sentries is pretty pretty minimal . |
| 24 | We 're not saying you 've got to do this in five minutes . |
| 25 | We 're not saying you ca n't do it because we 're trying to say you need to be aware of these problems because we need to find solutions to some of them , erm and A L O work is definitely one of them , that report from the home office and the D V suggests quite categorically that er that there should be a crime prevention input into all planning applications . |
| 26 | frightening them er you 're not erm you 're not saying you 're gon na die tomorrow or next week . |
| 27 | You 're not saying you are cold and then you 're saying you 're not cold ! |
| 28 | Well they 're not saying you 've got ta . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not saying we 're over the moon , but it 's a good move . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not saying we became best buddies because we never did , ’ says Penny . |