Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not [vb infin] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should not have said that , ’ she reluctantly admitted . |
| 2 | I would not want to say that I could criticise that parent , because I do n't know the background of it . |
| 3 | I would not want to say that I could criticise that parent , because I do n't know the background of it . |
| 4 | As many of us have mixed backgrounds I would not like to say that ethnic reasons are the main reasons for tabling this motion . |
| 5 | There are massive quartzites of similar type in the Ordovician of other parts of the world , from Bulgaria to the Canadian Rockies , but in my ignorance I will not risk saying that they are of exactly the same age . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom . |
| 8 | On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival . |
| 9 | Again , on a truth-conditional theory of semantics , those meanings can not be captured we would not want to say that B 's assertion in ( ii ) was false if B had simply misidentified A and assumed mistakenly that A was a male superior ( that would make truths relative to whomsoever they are addressed ) . |
| 10 | So it will not do to say that the reason why the Government found it necessary to curtail debate on the Bill was that they felt that there would be massive opposition to it . |