Example sentences of "say [conj] we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I THOUGHT it was terrific when David JoHansen of the New York Dolls delivered such quips a : ‘ Who cares about the music when one has such sense of drama ? ’ and , ‘ We do n't play too good but we can dance as bad as we want , ’ and ‘ We do n't hold concerts — we throw parties ! ’ , and ‘ It does n't bother us when people say that we ca n't play , when we met we actually could n't , ’ etc , etc , but all these sweeping statements were launched in 1973 , and when those same epigrams are repeated three years later by lesser mortals ( i.e. Sex Pistols , Runaways , Ramones and Kiss ) , things begin to look synthetic . |
| 2 | That is one of the principal arguments of those on the Government Benches who say that we should not sign up , that we can not say at this stage whether we are capable , as an economy , of participating without damage in a single currency . |
| 3 | We 'd better do as she says or we 'll not get a cup o' tea . |
| 4 | The Labour party says that we can not argue that a single person should pay less than a family next door with several working adults . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman is unfair to claim that we have said that we shall not take action . |
| 6 | We 've always said that we would n't do that . |
| 7 | An unidentified spokesman for the V&A was quoted in The Independent newspaper of 16 May , 1992 ( which featured several colour illustrations from the album ) as stating , ‘ We have always said that we could not raise the money to buy it , but would be very happy if someone would buy it and give it to us ’ . |
| 8 | My mother says if we ca n't live inside the Fort at least we should live in its suburbs . ’ |
| 9 | She says and we ca n't get a bloody sweet she says . |
| 10 | Well we 're not saying that we would n't have turned up it 's just that we were unable to turn up . |
| 11 | That is the point that we have addressed in saying that we will not meet fees , however high . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State for Employment sought to protest when my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield suggested to him that we were near the bottom of the league tables , saying that we should not take too much account of them . |
| 13 | This is coming dangerously close to saying that we can not find out how the brain works until we know how the brain works ! |
| 14 | I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored . |
| 15 | ‘ She , with great dignity , accepted my invitation and she said that we wo n't wait for too long before she comes to Russia on an official visit , ’ he said later at London 's Hyde Park Hotel . |
| 16 | ‘ But the policewoman said that we ca n't leave , ’ said Zanya . |
| 17 | The new philosophy said that we should not make value judgements : you ca n't think in an Aristotelian way ; no value judgements , no good and bad . |
| 18 | On check-off , the hon. Gentleman said that we could not have that now unless individual trade unionists gave their consent . |
| 19 | I , I do n't think I ever said that we could n't go ahead with it this year , I merely pointed out , I merely |
| 20 | Jung said that we can not live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life 's morning . |
| 21 | The Home Secretary said that we must not provide the opportunity for the organised violence against asylum seekers in Europe to spread here . |
| 22 | Well I would , I would , I would just comment that there er in profits have er have it does n't mean to say that we wo n't have some profits from our estate at Thurrock because there are other areas of land involved , but they wo n't be so substantial and for B-Sky-B I would turn to Frank . |
| 23 | to say that we could n't go all er go er tt all go to her house and I was just about to ask Sam if Jenny knew and she put the phone down and she had n't told Jenny . |
| 24 | My dad always used to say that we could not afford lunch , although , I have to say , this did not stop him eating it . |
| 25 | In our January issue , we omitted to say that we could not have taken the photographs of readers in all the colours of the rainbow without the cooperation of Debenhams in Western Road Brighton . |
| 26 | ‘ This is a promise that God gave to Abraham , ’ North said Reagan had told him , in the slightly hectoring tone he always had in the North dreams ; ‘ Who am I to say that we should not do this ? ’ |
| 27 | The objection involves the feeling or perhaps the conviction that we can never state or explicitly describe such a thing as a causal circumstance is said to be , which is to say that we can not do something like give a complete enumeration of its elements : we can not give particular or individuating descriptions of all of them . |
| 28 | After carefully reconsidering the issue , may I say that we would not want , as a matter of practice , to publish the proceeds from each company sold . |