Example sentences of "say you [modal v] not [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They might well have done of course they might have refused it 's the B B C they say you ca n't have a bottle
2 Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line .
3 They say you ca n't teach an old dog new tricks , but I 'm living proof .
4 He said ooh he says you wo n't get no more if you retire .
5 The very nature of the business says you ca n't have a nine till five job or whatever it is , you do n't work , I do n't think
6 These puppies are thriving in the warm environment , their owner says you could n't get a better start for young bird dogs .
7 They had nowhere else to go because this is closed and as they 've said you ca n't pay the mortgage on a single engine two seater aeroplane and you ca n't get rid of , to sell one of those things , there business in liquidation .
8 I 'm not saying you may not lose a few good people but on balance it 's worth that sacrifice rather than pursue an enforced redundancy policy .
9 When I left school I would n't go on with me dad at first , I said I wanted to play football and me dad did n't want me to play football and he said you ca n't do a milkround and play football .
10 Like you said you ca n't see the body language and fobbed off .
11 You ask why , and they say , ‘ Do n't ask me why , I said you ca n't have a bath . ’
12 ‘ But I thought you said you would n't have a thing like that in your house . ’
13 I said no , she said you wo n't leave the union will you , I said no , she said alright we 'll buy one at Haydock , still in the Lancashire region and the reason why the union is my second love , obviously my first love is me family , is what it 's done for me , but I also think what I 've done for those people who represent me and yourselves in Parliament .
14 ‘ Yes , well , you know I said you need n't feed the cat and water the plants because Barbs said she 'd do it ? ’
15 GILLIAN said you could n't make a general remark and then exclude half the human race , because fifty per cent of the time that someone will turn out to be female .
16 You tried to say you could n't stomach the welling blood the brains the private thinking tissues of the dead animal the pipes rivulets channels conduits and gulleys with their muscular veinous edges , tripe , brains and tongue .
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