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Example sentences of "do not say " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ What good are hints when they do not say when , how and what will ever get better ? ’ one East Berliner asked Western journalists .
2	At least , present theories do not say they should weigh anything , and observation has suggested that if they do weigh something , it is next to nothing .
3	All we can find out ‘ by the appearances or effects of nature , which we know by sense , [ are ] some ways and means by which they may be , I do not say they are , generated ’ .
4	we do not say that the Government has been defeated by the General Strike , for it was not directed against the Government .
5	ADVICE FOR surgeons on how not to get sued , from a ‘ Dr. X ’ , writing in the Journal of Medical Protection Society : ‘ Do not say ‘ oops ' ’
6	But do not say it as though you know what that means , ‘ only a story ’ .
7	Why should you choose , if you could , and I do not say that you could , to leave your children ?
8	As for the English speaking , a child of far more than three has no difficulty learning Italian and is so far from being wedded to the tongue he has begun with that he forgets it within a few months so do not say to me that is an obstacle .
9	The ministers claim we have to take a different approach from the Poles or Hungarians but they do not say in what way different .
10	What they do not say is that on this ‘ best ’ measure , police performance has in fact improved marginally , not declined ( from 7.9 in 1972 to 9.6 in 1986 . )
11	Do not say : ‘ Sandy , will you get dressed for mummy ? ’
12	The pressure of work , the need to earn , the pressure of family and children , the disappointment of new partners are only too real but do not say , ‘ I only have strength to carry on this path I am treading .
13	These definitions do not say what learning is , but describe it in terms of its effects .
14	I do not say that to mislead you into thinking that Australia is a nasty poisonous place and you 're safe in good old Britain .
15	So I do not say , ‘ Believe me , for I can not tell a lie . ’
16	I do not say an intellectual man can not follow the path .
17	If the reason was redundancy do not say that you were made redundant but that the job itself became redundant .
18	Do not say , ‘ I do not have any weaknesses at all ’ , as this will be patently untrue .
19	‘ Do not say , ‘ I 'll pay you back for this wrong ! ’
20	Do not say ‘ I 'm young and resilient , I can put up with a vandalised block of flats because it 's a cheap place to live . ’
21	Do not say ‘ Oh I must get around to phoning Fred or Millie ’ and just keep putting it off .
22	When they find it , they do not say anything but sit quietly until the last person finds it when they shout ‘ Hooray ’ as loud as they can .
23	DO NOT SAY SIXTEEN
24	You do not say whether any fish are still alive , but if there are , carry on with the partial water changes .
25	Do n't judge others by yourselves , I think ( though , of course , do not say ) .
26	‘ I do not say that .
27	People may say that understanding something , as you are now understanding what I have written , involves interpretation , that is , translating something linguistic , a sentence , into something non-linguistic , a thought ; but they do not say it because they have found they actually have to do any such translating .
28	Those of you who are involved in deciding whether to apply for a place in further or higher education will already know a good deal about how to read prospectuses without believing everything they say : what they do not say is just as important .
29	We should read the catalogue descriptions with circumspection — what they do not say is invariably more important than what they do — and we need to be more guarded when reading articles by newspaper reporters whose effusions are often more flamboyant than they should be .
30	These chapters are comparatively less weighty , and are perhaps most valuable for what they do not say , if we remember the pressure for definitions and anathemas .