Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] say " in BNC.
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1 | And very … well , I 'd better not say any more about that . |
2 | But I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and decided that maybe I 'd better not say too much in front of the stranger . |
3 | ‘ I need your brother back even sooner than that — though perhaps I 'd better not say what fate I 'm planning for him . ’ |
4 | However — ’ he grinned at the expression on her face ‘ — I 'd better not say any more . |
5 | She goes er she goes ssshhhh no I 'd better not say that since , seeing as you 're in . |
6 | ‘ I do n't just say ‘ I 've got toothache ’ , but toothache makes me say this . ’ |
7 | I do n't just say it , because time is valuable and I should explain what 's happening in the region but I think it 's also very important to convey this to you after your years and decades of solidarity with the liberation struggle . |
8 | I do n't just say taking part for taking part sake . |
9 | You have interfered in the situation in a way which may be — I do n't necessarily say it is — very dangerous and you have to think out in detail how that is going to work . |
10 | circulate paper from erm a new motion in terms of the environment motions erm defers more than that I do n't really say |
11 | I do n't actually say that I view his piano playing as if he 's a miniature mixture of Oscar Peterson , Oscar Borge , Chico Marx , Russ Conway and Les Dawson , because I 've only just thought of that . |
12 | I was so cowed that I did n't even say who I was ; I pretended to be her . |
13 | Okay well they 're two completely different spelling different things and you got them bot right I did n't I did n't help you I did n't even say and think about which sort of bean you 're using or anything like that did I . |
14 | , no she did , she I did n't even say who I was , she just knew the way I spoke she said you 're from T N T are n't you ? |
15 | Because because I , I did n't really say goodbye to some of those people . |
16 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
17 | ‘ I did n't actually say that . ’ |
18 | Yeah , oh what , I did n't actually say fuck that , I know I 've got to go and get your present you know . |
19 | ‘ I did n't quite say that , no . |
20 | ‘ I did n't quite say that . |
21 | you usually get the fourth and the fifth as well but I did actually only say three but alright |
22 | He then told the court I had better not say she was an angel or no angel or the national press will have a hundred field days . |
23 | I know I have been reduced to a babble of disconnected comments , which do n't really say much . |
24 | ‘ You did n't even say anything to Barbara Coleman ? ’ |
25 | Yeah , you did n't even say |
26 | And what and surely you did n't just say nothing to that ? |
27 | Well no you did n't actually say but one would presume from that that that 's what you were getting . |
28 | I wanted to add , ‘ It is n't for long ’ , or something like that , but you do n't exactly say that between friends , do you ? |
29 | I know he said it in anger but you do n't even say things in anger if you do n't feel them and that really bothers me a bit . |
30 | You do n't just say , ‘ Gissa job ’ , 'cause it 's like , ‘ Sure , I 'll give you a job , wash the fucking dishes homeboy . ’ |