Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in circumstances where there may be legitimate public concern about the violation of human rights by the new regime , or the manner in which it achieved power , it has not sufficed to say that the announcement of ‘ recognition ’ is simply a neutral formality . |
| 2 | The fact that it has not happened says a great deal both about the appointments process and the legal profession . |
| 3 | The result is that the reader feels lost — because the writer has n't bothered to say where they are . |
| 4 | If they give you an equation like this let's say the weight you 're making up a a load for a lorry and you 're putting erm crates on with car engines in , and the car engine weighs erm I du n no say it weighs a hundred kilograms . |
| 5 | Indeed , I am sure that the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) did not mean to say that . |
| 6 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I did not intend to say anything else . ’ |
| 8 | She did not bother to say it , again , again , again , that Faith Lavender was dead . |
| 9 | I did not like to say no . |
| 10 | If , on the other hand , he felt that someone was a really harmful influence , he did not hesitate to say so . |
| 11 | In a sense the Advisor did not need to say more , for both her report and the fable of Fred begin to capture the mood of growing up . |
| 12 | Whoever was on duty would move gently any part of the affected limb , trying as they did so to persuade Jimbo that now the pain was gone he might — I did not dare to say ‘ would ’ — be free soon to walk normally . |
| 13 | The flower seller , Ms Sue Thompson , said : ‘ I did not dare say anything . |
| 14 | It was the first time in American history that serving officers did not dare say what their commander-in-chief had told them to do . |
| 15 | She did not dare say more . |
| 16 | I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me . |
| 17 | She thought she was rather like a mother , making sure a child had eaten before going off to school , did not scruple to say , " Are you sure you 've had enough ? |
| 18 | Here we again begin to approach the deeper aspects of philosophy and I do not intend to say any more about it here . |
| 19 | I do not intend to say much about how he proposes to do this , or about the background in nineteenth-century intellectual history which accounts for his finding the picture attractive . |
| 20 | I do not intend to say any more about this issue , which has already been referred to by my hon. Friends . |
| 21 | We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ . |
| 22 | I do not want to say that we are going to get rid of everyone , only those who are our enemies . |
| 23 | Viewed as an ‘ independent robot ’ , I am happy to admit that a particular area of my brain controls my digestive processes and ‘ I ’ do not , but I certainly do not want to say that that brain area is ‘ aware ’ of those processes . |
| 24 | Negative mistakes , they say , arise from boredom with banal material , Controversially , they explore substitutions psychoanalytically , giving examples of cases where children make deviant responses , not because they do not know the original words , but because they do not want to say them . |
| 25 | I do not want to say that there has been a huge leap in the past year or so , because that would not true , but there has been a big leap since 1980 . |
| 26 | ‘ We do hope Mr De Klerk gets his mandate but I do not want to say there will be a review of policy in our dealings with his administration . |
| 27 | She would only say : ‘ I do not wish to say anything about anything . ’ |
| 28 | Judge Kenneth Richardson ordered charges to be dropped against the 27-year-old and said : ‘ Beyond wishing you a happy married life , I do not wish to say any more . ’ |
| 29 | We do not wish to say how a writer should organise his written discourse into paragraphs before we have managed to characterise , in any comprehensive way , how writers typically do so . |
| 30 | in relation to section 268 said , at p. 177c ‘ the jurisdiction is a most useful one , and I certainly do not wish to say , and it is unnecessary to say , anything which would limit its scope . ’ |