Example sentences of "said [pers pn] [vb mod] not [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she would not blame teachers for concluding that their profession was being utterly deprofessionalised after Mr Lang 's suggestion that schools could be run by parents and local busy-bodies . |
| 2 | Supply said she would not start cookery lesson until she returned . |
| 3 | Carol Park , communications director of Standard Life , said she would not preempt Monday 's meeting and could not discuss the company 's future support . |
| 4 | Margaret Geeson , the nurse in charge of the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital children 's ward that day , said she could not remember Allitt ever informing her of the incident . |
| 5 | ‘ The North said they would not hold talks during the … exercises , ’ the source said . |
| 6 | A potentially crippling problem arose last week when hundreds of policemen from the 17,000-strong security force said they would not take part unless they were guaranteed proper living conditions and pay rises . |
| 7 | Newspapers said they would not report matches and carried a barrage of irate letters . |
| 8 | Zuwaya said they should not watch television together ; sons should not smoke in their father 's presence , nor try to wheedle or coax money from them ; and mostly they did not do those things . |
| 9 | A police spokeswoman said they could not confirm reports of a second bag snatch from a another woman 's car just a few minutes later . |
| 10 | But Palestinians rejected the offer and said they could not resume peace talks until all the deportees were returned . |
| 11 | The league said it would not send cats to Coundon as it had heard of a case of a kitten being used as live bait for dogs . |
| 12 | Nestle Foods Corporation said it would not buy Salvadoran coffee for 30 days in response to a consumer group campaign against the war in El Salvador . |
| 13 | Peking said it would not persecute Mr Yang if he was returned to the mainland , a clear sign it would strongly disapprove of Hong Kong not returning him . |
| 14 | IBM Japan said it will not consider measures that would force employees out despite its economic woes because of customary lifelong employment in Japan . |
| 15 | Aid convoys have been backed up at the border since Monday after Gen Morillon said he would not leave Srebrenica until aid was allowed through . |
| 16 | It said 56 per cent of those asked believed the president had misled the public during last year 's election campaign when he said he would not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for his programmes . |
| 17 | Peterson backed off and said he would not ask Jones to cancel his talk . |
| 18 | What is worrying is that Yoarth said he may not play Speed ( but Goss ) so with Kelly not playing Macca could be the only Leeds representative playing tonight ( I think ) … just shows the state of British football managers : - ( |
| 19 | He did n't like the sound of that much , so he changed his mind and said he might not have time , anyway , after his other reading in a church hall . |
| 20 | The all-rounder , who hurt his shoulder during Pakistan 's World Cup campaign , said he will not tour England if he has to have an operation . |
| 21 | ( A few months later , president George Bush underlined the non-equivalence of ‘ women ’ and ‘ American citizens ’ : explaining why the US saw fit to invade Panama , he said he could not tolerate assaults on ‘ the wife of an American citizen ’ . |
| 22 | He said he could not release details of the amount of money involved as it was confidential information . |
| 23 | But he said he could not consider calls for an open sheriff 's inquiry , in spite of pleas by the islands ' MP , Jim Wallace , Shetland Islands Council , and the petitioners . |