Example sentences of "say [that] [pers pn] [modal v] not [verb] " 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 | Some teachers say that they ca n't leave out attractive or valuable items on open display in classrooms and corridors in case of theft or damage . |
| 4 | But they say that they wo n't come off when you go swimming , and you take your clothes on and off . |
| 5 | However , because the individual has settled here the Government say that they can not send that person back . |
| 6 | It is then a matter of preference whether you say that they can not choose the goals or that they can not form strategies to achieve them or both . |
| 7 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 8 | The Germans say that they can not absorb that number , and country after country is saying the same . |
| 9 | Germany , the Netherlands and Belgium are supporters of the British plan but other EC countries say that they can not afford to build the new plants required for waste disposal . |
| 10 | Forby , I say that they will not wait in the town to let themselves be besieged . |
| 11 | A lot of people say that you should n't hack young horses out on their own for months , if at all , but I 've always preferred the theory that if horses do n't learn to go out alone from the start you set up problems for later on . |
| 12 | Yeah well if they say that I would n't say I would n't pick them up . |
| 13 | The instructions say that I can not enter the building after 11 o'clock this morning . |
| 14 | Then I had to be honest , and say that I could not guarantee to work for longer than four months . |
| 15 | I think that I heard the Minister of State say that he would not give way . |
| 16 | A spokesman for the DS says that they ca n't comment on individual cases but in general anyone who is out of the country for whatever reason is then deemed unavailable for work and ca n't be in receipt of benefits . |
| 17 | The Minister says that they can not bear it , but perhaps the Duke of Edinburgh has more feeling . |
| 18 | The supervisor says that they can not wear gloves . ’ |
| 19 | She says that they must n't become complacent . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And the Milton Keynes-based Motor Insurers ' Bureau , which is responsible for compensation when a driver 's uninsured , says that it wo n't pay up either because Gooch was n't wholly to blame . |
| 22 | The Department of National Heritage ( DNH ) says that it can not delay because otherwise exporters would fall foul of the tough penalties laid down by the Custom and Excise Management Act ( 1979 ) . |
| 23 | Humberside TEC says that it can not get employer placements , so it is not getting ’ NVG III provisions ’ and the quality of training is falling . |
| 24 | If the Chairman disagrees with the Council and says that it should not have refused your request , then the Council must let your child have a place in the school your asked for . |
| 25 | He says that you ca n't trust anybody in business . |
| 26 | There is a popular cliche , usually uttered in the tones Stephen Potter would have called " plonking " , which says that you can not get out of computers any more than you put in . |
| 27 | He says that I might not need to get it right ? |
| 28 | He says that I might not need to get it , right , because , if , he can only tell half my blood . |
| 29 | He was the one that got me pregnant and he says that I ca n't come home at all now and I phoned the hospital , yes , and they said that come in and if I go in then you 're going to arrest me and then you 'll just call my dad like you always have done every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 30 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |