Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | And very … well , I 'd better not say any more about that . |
| 2 | But I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and decided that maybe I 'd better not say too much in front of the stranger . |
| 3 | Oh good , er , That 's the first time I 've heard religious sort of erm I better not say what I was going to say . |
| 4 | He then told the court I had better not say she was an angel or no angel or the national press will have a hundred field days . |
| 5 | Er he said or he 's in a in a in a little trouble today for allowing two men who had sex of thirteen to go free erm a policeman told the judge that the thirteen year old was more like Mandy Smith than the proverbial school girl with pigtails but she was nevertheless thirteen and the judge said he had better not say she was no angel or the national press would have a hundred field days with him . |
| 6 | ‘ I need your brother back even sooner than that — though perhaps I 'd better not say what fate I 'm planning for him . ’ |
| 7 | However — ’ he grinned at the expression on her face ‘ — I 'd better not say any more . |
| 8 | It 's it 's like I I better not say say this but Irishmen over that when when I when I used to work with Irishmen my word they was good Irishmen . |
| 9 | She goes er she goes ssshhhh no I 'd better not say that since , seeing as you 're in . |
| 10 | oh you better not say , something like |
| 11 | He was staring at the lake , regretful perhaps that he 'd said too much not to say more . |
| 12 | obviously not said anything to Pete about me |
| 13 | They often sat together not saying a word , which is maybe the best way to get on with anybody . |
| 14 | Clad in his trademark leather jacket and trousers , Lord Christopher , said yesterday : ‘ It 's all a bit dodgy at the moment and I 'd rather not say anything at this stage . |
| 15 | I 'd be put to work on the Looms and you 'd be — ; Well , ’ said Caspar , who , despite his work for the Court and later the Gruagach , had retained a vestige of delicacy , ‘ well , I 'd rather not say what might happen to you . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd rather not say … |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd rather not say on the telephone . ’ |
| 18 | Ronnie wants to put the whole incident behind him and would rather not say any more . |
| 19 | They exchange ‘ best not say any more ’ glances . |
| 20 | Linda knows what it is , but I 'm just not saying anything about it . |
| 21 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 22 | Could Sandra please not say a word to anyone , not even the women or the other rescue workers ? |
| 23 | She would simply not say another word on the subject . |
| 24 | And I 'm asked every well not say every day of the week but most weeks I 'm asked somewhere well where are you gon na start from ? |
| 25 | well not saying tha , I mean I and again I , I think what I need to do is get a sheet again , obviously working with yourselves and Rod to get you more information to make sure the classes are not and do n't get same situation as last year |
| 26 | She tried very , very hard not to say ‘ concoined ’ and only just missed . |
| 27 | Yet one picks it up , in hints and implications , in the not-quite-concealed exasperation of polite administrators , in the raised eyebrows and brief knowing smiles of senior academics on committees ; indeed , it is as much a matter of what is significantly not said , as of what is said ; in poststructuralist terms , of lacunae , vides , silences . |
| 28 | ‘ We are definitely not saying that these stores are in anyway directly involved in the tragic events in Brazil , ’ Colchester FoE tropical rainforest campaigner Don Manhire said . |
| 29 | And for that reason you 're actually not saying it . |
| 30 | Tallis 's case is convincing , though he has certainly not said the last word on the matter , and there may well be further arguments from those who are professionally engaged in linguistics . |