Example sentences of "not say [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would not say they had become friends , just strong acquaintances . |
| 2 | The fact that many of the twenty middle-class women did not say they disliked housework does not rule this explanation out of court . |
| 3 | A BR spokesman at York explained certain types of trees he could not say which shed thick leaves in autumn causing problems for trains on two counts . |
| 4 | A few chroniclers report the events of the war but they do not say what caused it . |
| 5 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 6 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 7 | ‘ I would not say he has always told us all the truth , ’ said Cadfael mildly , ‘ if that 's a matter for his conscience . |
| 8 | ‘ It was a trickle of a stream and I did not say I 'd broken every bone , just hurt my leg . |
| 9 | Belief … may be said to be the state of mind of a person who says to himself : " I can not say I know for certain that these goods are stolen , but there can be no other reasonable conclusion in the light of circumstances … |
| 10 | He does not say I know what I have believed but he says , I know whom I have believed . |
| 11 | I can not say I feel any enthusiasm for the result . |
| 12 | I have updated the models many times over the years , but I can not say I have made a fortune from my knitting . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But I would not say I learned nothing from Vincente . |
| 15 | Now how many of you here have been in situations where you 've been behind a pedal cyclist and you 've been tempted , I 'll not say you 've done it , but you 've been tempted to go past ? |
| 16 | ‘ I did not say you slept around ! |
| 17 | you can not say you did not guess |
| 18 | ‘ We did not say you have got to come to Darlington or Newcastle of Teesside , we said look at the North and here is the help that you can get . ’ |
| 19 | panel seeks to make that two million pounds , subject to the appropriate level of grants and borrow approvals and perhaps some assistance from within our own resources and elsewhere being budget , this is a , a firm intention to increase that figure , but we can not say it has been increased yet , to do so will be premature , but that I ask the committee to accept it this morning as a recommendation from the |
| 20 | In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 3 All ER 545 ( part of the Spycatcher case ) it was recognised that information which Peter Wright had unearthed by his own endeavours was clearly covered by an obligation of confidence even though one could not say there existed a " confider " or " confidant " in relation to that information . |
| 21 | Is it wrong , then , to pay heed to Mr Ingham 's remarks merely because one can not say who made them ? |
| 22 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 23 | Mr Steyn , who voted for Prime Suspect , said the jurors handed their votes to Miss Shubik , who checked them and announced a clear majority of four to three , though she did not say who had won . |
| 24 | Waller , armed with a wood-cutting chisel , grabbed one 16-year-old and threatened to cut his ear if the youth did not say who had damaged the car . |
| 25 | ‘ Naked I was sent back ’ , he says at one point ( recalling the story of Scyld ) , but he does not say who sent him . |
| 26 | You do n't say what happened to him . ’ |
| 27 | I did n't say they had n't got lorries . |
| 28 | ‘ Ca n't say they look particularly intelligent to me . ’ |
| 29 | ROS : ( Irritated ) I did n't say they started to grow after dead ! |
| 30 | Although warning signs shout at you not to cross these fragile constructions , as you 're bound to fall off and die and do n't say they did n't tell you so , you 'd have to be a boring old git not to want to do a balancing act over them for thrills . |