Example sentences of "not [verb] say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can not comment say why not . |
| 2 | In a sense the Advisor did not need to say more , for both her report and the fable of Fred begin to capture the mood of growing up . |
| 3 | I am not permitted to say where he will remove you to . |
| 4 | If , on the other hand , he felt that someone was a really harmful influence , he did not hesitate to say so . |
| 5 | She did not dare say more . |
| 6 | Cricket can be boring when Botham behaves , and snooker needs Alex Higgins even if it does not like to say so . |
| 7 | But I do not like to say much about Islay ; let us therefore remount our primitive carriage . |
| 8 | But I do not like to say much about Islay ; let us therefore remount our primitive carriage . |
| 9 | ‘ have : You need not fear saying too |
| 10 | Does the Prime Minister not remember saying just a year ago on the steps of Downing street that the Conservative party was ’ fully united for the future ’ and is that not patently false now when , in the approach to the vital meeting at Maastricht , the Tory party is in a state of open warfare ? |
| 11 | He was still inside her , but softened and withdrawn , and she could not have said honestly that the experience was an exciting one . |
| 12 | Sometimes this pleased him and sometimes it made him feel frightened , though he could not have said why . |
| 13 | I was certain , although I could not have said why , that if I did not answer correctly this might well be the end . |
| 14 | It seemed the right thing to do , though he could not have said why . |
| 15 | Robert could not have said why , but he had the strong impression that the engineering master , too , had been listening at the door . |
| 16 | If he had chosen to confide in anyone then he could not have said clearly what was the summit of his aspiration . |
| 17 | I should not have said so much . |
| 18 | He could not have said more plainly , ‘ It will soon be you and I. ’ There was an understanding between them . |
| 19 | Jasper knew she was pretending , though he could not have said how he knew . |
| 20 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 21 | We do not wish to say how a writer should organise his written discourse into paragraphs before we have managed to characterise , in any comprehensive way , how writers typically do so . |
| 22 | This need not mean saying how upset they are and how wonderful the dead person was . |
| 23 | I do not intend to say much about how he proposes to do this , or about the background in nineteenth-century intellectual history which accounts for his finding the picture attractive . |
| 24 | I do not propose to say more at this stage , except that I wholly accept the evidence of the surgeon as to the desperate nature of this situation , and that I grant the declaration as sought , which will include provision for the necessary consequential treatment in addition to the Caesarean operation . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |