Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] not [vb infin] said " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 2 | Robert could not have said why , but he had the strong impression that the engineering master , too , had been listening at the door . |
| 3 | Even Hazel could not have said a word for his life . |
| 4 | Ten days before , the lad could n't have said that . |
| 5 | Dr Tariq would not have said that he liked the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council , but he admired him . |
| 6 | He gets shirty with Sir Burke Trend because of the impersonal way in which the Cabinet Minutes are prepared : ‘ I pointed this out to Burke Trend and I said , ‘ Harold ca n't have said this . ’ |
| 7 | Robert would not have said that the fanlight was almost obliterated with bird droppings . |
| 8 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 9 | Sunk in introspective misery , Virginia could n't have said later if it was wet or dry , day or night , winter or summer . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't bring myself to tell her and I 'm pretty sure your father wo n't have said anything . ’ |
| 11 | It must be possible , or the vet would n't have said it . |
| 12 | Why she stayed on waiting for that phone call Leith could n't have said , though she thought her very large concern about paying her mortgage had something to do with it . |
| 13 | I 'm sure no one else has and Mum wo n't have said anything about it , even to Dad . |
| 14 | No but Ian wo n't have said she 'll frighten me . |
| 15 | And he could believe that although Zoser might not have said these things he had actually felt them . |
| 16 | The main reason why scholars have thought that the forged passages conferring the primacy were already in the documents in 1072 is that , if they were not there , Lanfranc could not have said that these papal letters were the ultimum robur of his whole case . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister could not have said that between 1987 and April 1991 — the four years when child benefit was frozen . |
| 18 | Angelica could n't have said . |
| 19 | Well Firmin would n't have said fuck of course , but his tone was there . |