Example sentences of "be [adv] say that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 're about to say that I do n't understand , but I assure you I do . |
| 2 | I 'm not saying that I wo n't win World and Olympic titles , just that , at this time , I can not conceive of myself achieving that time . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not saying that I shall live here , ’ Peter said . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying that I would n't say |
| 5 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 6 | Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration . |
| 7 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 8 | ‘ So , OK , I 'm not saying that I 'm the best commodity dealer in London . |
| 9 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 10 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 11 | This is not to say that I advocate the status quo . |
| 12 | That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them . |
| 13 | That is not to say that I disagree with Sir Bernard 's suggestion that the primary health-care system needs to be radically overhauled . |
| 14 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 15 | That is not to say that I shall select my facts to fit my theory , I shall rather select those general impressions that I have gathered in the course of my geological wanderings . |
| 16 | That is not to say that I have n't got sympathy for the problem that he 's faced with . |
| 17 | It 's just to say that I 'm going to Norwich for a couple of hours to buy some materials . |
| 18 | That 's not to say that I I believe that the villages er some of the villages are incapable of of . |
| 19 | That 's not to say that I think we made a mistake . |
| 20 | That 's not to say that I 'll come back . |
| 21 | and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues . |
| 22 | ‘ I was simply saying that I 'm not a total stranger to your country . ’ |
| 23 | I got involved in that so that by mid-1977 I was performing in a play which was actually saying that I was gay . |