Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Striving hard for some normality , she pulled her head back and told him , ‘ I d-did n't say a word to anyone about — about us . ’ |
| 2 | I decided not to say anything to him . |
| 3 | I decided not to say so ; it might sound ironic . |
| 4 | A hectic programme for the 18-year-old : ‘ I may have played a little too much rugby this season but I so enjoy playing , and I try not to say ‘ no ’ to anyone who invites me to play . |
| 5 | All we can find out ‘ by the appearances or effects of nature , which we know by sense , [ are ] some ways and means by which they may be , I do not say they are , generated ’ . |
| 6 | Why should you choose , if you could , and I do not say that you could , to leave your children ? |
| 7 | I do not say that to mislead you into thinking that Australia is a nasty poisonous place and you 're safe in good old Britain . |
| 8 | So I do not say , ‘ Believe me , for I can not tell a lie . ’ |
| 9 | I do not say an intellectual man can not follow the path . |
| 10 | ‘ I do not say that . |
| 11 | I do not say , either , that these rights and duties should be tied into one package , that if a young person wants to assume any of them , he must assume them all . |
| 12 | ‘ I do not say it will happen , I am just telling you . ’ |
| 13 | I can not say , and I do not say , that it is bound to be . |
| 14 | I can not say , and I do not say , that it is bound to be . |
| 15 | I do not say this on the basis that I consider her approach irrational . |
| 16 | I do not say this to just anyone , it would not be correct to do so . |
| 17 | " A day may come — I do not say it will come , but that it may — when bands of Englishmen from the Tweed to the Tamar , sickened by the prevarications of the capitalists and by the continued infiltration of Celtic elements into English life , will arise with guns in their hands . |
| 18 | I do not say that we should pull up the anchor and take the United Kingdom somewhere else . |
| 19 | It was impossible to imagine a people — ; I do not say a government — with less relish for war , if my contacts with the Italian colonists and equally with the Italian army were any guide . |
| 20 | I do not say that in order to condemn the people who work in those industries . |
| 21 | All that is true , but I do not say that young people who have been deprived in that way should go out and steal cars . |
| 22 | I do not say that to score a cheap point . |
| 23 | I do not say this in a malicious way or to score debating points , but I said that the chairman of Scottish Nuclear had argued at the Nuclear Forum that there might be a case , in the strategic interests of the nation , to subsidise nuclear power . |
| 24 | I do not say that in party-political terms , because the Government 's objective is the same as mine . |
| 25 | An acceptable reason for not introducing an FE funding council — although I do not say that the reason would be either accurate or right — would be if the Government intended to merge it with the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council . |
| 26 | I do not say that people ’ have it taken out of them ’ for making a complaint at the time when that complaint is made , but there may be a problem the next time something happens . |
| 27 | I do not say that they all had the high quality of the measure that he introduced , but they were very fine measures indeed . |
| 28 | Sunil is an unregenerate homosexual — you note I do not say ‘ gay ’ , a word which has been infamously ghettoised — and he appears to find me , at this stage of his life , to his taste . ’ |
| 29 | He came into the witness-box today , and I gather it is his normal mode of locomotion , using two elbow crutches in order to get about , and from the reports it is quite plain that the pain is more or less continuous — I do not say without any intermission at all , but there is constant pain in his hip . |
| 30 | I do not say that in any criticism of the existing police authorities , my experience as Home Secretary I have to admit now some ten years ago was that on the whole they did a very good job , but I do now accept that the importance of law and order today demands a broad approach and possibly some new ideas . |