Example sentences of "say [pers pn] did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ prisoner at the Bar , I will tell you what you ought to have done , and if you say you did not know , I will tell you that the Law conclusively presumes that you did . |
| 2 | ‘ You say you did not know Nona Pitt well . |
| 3 | Durham County Council say they did not know the source of the waste , nor the company responsible for dumping it , and they admitted it is too late to find out . |
| 4 | The Baughs checked the original offer letter carefully and they say it did not state clearly that once people have accepted , there was no way out and it certainly did not mention the excessive opt-out figure they were later quoted . |
| 5 | ‘ But you say it did not have the chain on it ? ’ |
| 6 | Yet , faced with the necessity for resolute leadership , at this time of trial , Sir Patrick could only declare his satisfaction with the present policy and say he did not anticipate many changes . |
| 7 | Yesterday , in a letter to the GP signatories , Mr Fallon says he did not refer to fundholding practices but believes they have benefitted from controlling their budgets . |
| 8 | CHRISTOPHER Gable says he did not set out to deliberately shock . |
| 9 | Julian Spalding , the director of Glasgow museums , says he did not want to ‘ create just a museum of Christianity , because that would be of limited appeal and too narrow in range . ’ |
| 10 | The inquiry says he did not raise his flag an assertion he strongly denies . |
| 11 | He says he did not know it had been . |
| 12 | Earlier yesterday an Inkatha spokesman had said he did not think Mr Mandela would dare to attend the funeral . |
| 13 | Mr Dear has said he did not take earlier action because he was told there was no evidence to suggest a wider conspiracy . |
| 14 | The Appeal court has quashed Judith Ward 's conviction for three bombings , including the M-sixty-two coach blast , saying she did not have a fair trial and that three Government scientists took the law into their own hands . |
| 15 | The five smaller parties represented in the new ‘ coalition government ’ yesterday withdrew their support for Mr Krenz , saying they did not believe his assurances that he was unaware of the large-scale corruption among the previous communist leadership . |
| 16 | The five smaller parties represented in the new ‘ coalition government ’ yesterday withdrew their support for Mr Krenz , saying they did not believe his assurances that he was unaware of the large-scale corruption among the previous Communist leadership . |
| 17 | The five smaller parties represented in the new ‘ coalition government ’ yesterday withdrew their support for Mr Krenz , saying they did not believe his assurances that he was unaware of the large-scale corruption among the previous communist leadership of which he was a vital part . |
| 18 | I decided that she had never really liked Richard and wrote her an angry letter attacking a Labour politician I knew she particularly admired , saying he did not care for Socialist principles and was no more than a cunning man who would do anything for power . |
| 19 | He refused to join Mike Gatting 's Ashes tour to Australia in 1986-87 , saying he did not wish to spend four months away from his family . |
| 20 | MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — A Soviet parliamentary committee rejected the government 's proposed budget and economic plan for 1990 saying it did not go far enough in adapting the Soviet planned economy to competition and market forces . |
| 21 | In London , the Foreign Office declined to comment on Mr Keating 's speech , saying it did not get involved in elections in other countries . |
| 22 | When I said I did not have the sum he drew me even further into a corner . |
| 23 | I said I did not know — I did n't know what I was letting myself in for . |
| 24 | He was very drowsy , and as I had no intention of letting him wake himself up with a conversation on my private life or anything else , I said I did not believe in mixing business and pleasure , and , as I hoped , the cliché put him to sleep . |
| 25 | And I felt and I said I did not kill her and I was the murderer and Shameer said check hit me but she did n't it felt like a hit and you do n't accidentally do that do you ? |
| 26 | In Matthew chapter nine , in verse thirteen Jesus said I did not come to call the righteous but sinners . |
| 27 | I am sorry to say I did not think about dear , good Joe at all . |
| 28 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 29 | The warden pointed out that time was not of the essence as it has taken since 1977 to strengthen the bell tower and rehang the bells , all carried out by villagers , needless to say I did not visualise the same time cycle for my part of the job . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , this is not to say I did not gain a fairly clear impression of what was taking place within the room . |