Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jaz I ca n't bear to say tem . |
| 2 | In me the need to talk is a primary impulse , and I ca n't help saying right off what comes to my tongue . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't help saying it strikes me as rather odd that you 've left it till now to start looking for her . ’ |
| 4 | I ca n't remember saying saying you |
| 5 | ‘ It is a very sensitive area which needs careful consideration because we ca n't afford to say that it 's too expensive so we will forget about standards . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm afraid I ca n't begin to say . ’ |
| 7 | I ca n't begin to say how supportive she was at that time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 10 | He gets shirty with Sir Burke Trend because of the impersonal way in which the Cabinet Minutes are prepared : ‘ I pointed this out to Burke Trend and I said , ‘ Harold ca n't have said this . ’ |
| 11 | She ca n't have said that . |
| 12 | If you can not comment say why not . |
| 13 | I can not resist saying that when Japan finally exchanges her peaceful simplicity , her admiration for , and artistic appreciation of , Nature 's beauties , and her contented national life , for the storm stress , and hurry of that feverish existence known to the West , she will have given up the substance for the shadow . |
| 14 | I can not venture to say whether the shake-up which we thought World War two might have given to Germany has done it . |