Example sentences of "[coord] they do [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil , from Sutton , who had joined the school during the first week of the project ( after causing severe behavioural problems at his previous schools ) commented : ‘ You 've got ta have good questions or they do n't say enough . ’ |
| 2 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 3 | No , the ones at the front of the store were for seventy P and they were marked firmed tomatoes , the others at the back were sixty P and they did n't say firm on them so I thought well , firm probably means hard , I 'll get the , get the others , so I 'll skinned a couple of them for tea |
| 4 | And they did n't say anything so I go , Oh will be round at about erm half past er quarter past eight and goes , Yeah okay then . |
| 5 | You know , when I 'm not supposed to be out and I 'll come in at ten thirty when all the others and they do n't say anything . |
| 6 | And they do n't say , I know . |
| 7 | The ministers claim we have to take a different approach from the Poles or Hungarians but they do not say in what way different . |
| 8 | People may say that understanding something , as you are now understanding what I have written , involves interpretation , that is , translating something linguistic , a sentence , into something non-linguistic , a thought ; but they do not say it because they have found they actually have to do any such translating . |
| 9 | A few chroniclers report the events of the war but they do not say what caused it . |
| 10 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 11 | she goes on about all this but they do n't say how much it 's gon na cost , never mind the storage heaters |
| 12 | I think the point , I think the point we 're making is that none of the districts yesterday told us that to meet their figure in H one they would need to have a new settlement , for example , I well remember Selby saying to us if we go above our H one figure we would need a new settlement , but they did not say to meet our H one figure we would need a new settlement . |
| 13 | But they did n't say there 'd be an arrest soon . ’ |
| 14 | But they did n't say they did n't ever want to ever drive a car again . |
| 15 | He says I 'd better go and check the money so he said erm but what he could n't understand was they wrote to him and said that they have n't paid the cheques but they did n't say anything about freezing his account ! |