Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not actually say , ‘ she would have to be different ’ , but the implication was unmistakable . |
| 2 | We do not always say what we mean to say , and leave ourselves open to misinterpretation . |
| 3 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 4 | They do not therefore say that they need fewer teachers . |
| 5 | He did not even say goodbye . |
| 6 | He did not quite say , ‘ Jairmany calling ! |
| 7 | All of these problems , falling within the sphere of legitimate unrest , could be dealt with , he believed , by intelligent and sympathetic administrators — were indeed assumed to be , though he did not explicitly say so , their bread and butter : he himself had dealt superlatively with the Punjab rent agitations of 1931 . |
| 8 | It did not also say that Mr Major was yet much of a Prime Minister . |
| 9 | One may ask what account the firm took of the duties it owed of confidentiality and good faith , bearing in mind that , far from inquiring whether the BR board would object , it did not even say what it was doing . |
| 10 | But , in fact , he does not quite say this . |
| 11 | What Aristotle says there is that the demos would like to be a monarchos , an autocrat , he does not quite say that it is . |
| 12 | Furthermore there is a covert hierarchy between X and Y , which the distinction depends on though it does not explicitly say so . |