Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [be] not [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | like it and she turned round and she says they 're not real friends . |
| 2 | He says they 're not real gipsies and that last time they came to the district they caused a lot of damage to crops and stole several turkeys . ’ |
| 3 | Alan Bleasdale declined to contribute to NSS 's ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ feature last week ( ‘ It 's 1997 and the Conservatives are going for their fifth election victory in a row … ’ ) because he says he is n't any good at foreseeing the future : ‘ I never thought cassette tapes would catch on . ’ |
| 4 | If you 're saying you 're not supporting borrowing , it 's , I think you 've got a duty to say , what services you 're going to cut . |
| 5 | I 've taken as much stick as praise since the line started in June , with people saying it 's not real recycling . |
| 6 | she said I was n't four years old and she was still working in the box office . |
| 7 | ‘ They said I was n't any use to Them . ’ |
| 8 | He said have you seen Kevin out in street I said I 'm not fucking hell would I want to see Kev for ? |
| 9 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 10 | You said it was n't much cop |
| 11 | The officer on duty on the night he died Tony Strong said it was not normal practice to peer on prisoners through the cell doors because this was considered an invasion of privacy . |
| 12 | Yeah I mean I er er er clearly like m m most banks , th th th they found some useful opportunities in September , but I mean I do n't say they 're not huge players they do n't have enormous capital they 're not strict punters in , in , in any of the markets . |
| 13 | Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one 's chest at the dinner table . ’ |