Example sentences of "say [conj] i [vb base] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that I am not thought too patronising or authoritarian when I say that I do not believe that parents should leave children in unattended cars and they certainly should not leave the keys in the car as well . |
| 2 | I think that I am not alone in saying that I have not properly done my job of examining in detail some of the legislation which has come before us . |
| 3 | I put this earlier by saying that I do not believe that the causal nexus of nature or that of history could be broken . |
| 4 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |
| 5 | ‘ Now I suppose you are going to say that I have not mentioned the word lover , but I always think it 's ludicrous to call one 's wife one 's lover . |
| 6 | I have read the report of the guardian ad litem and such information as I have which would indicate her view of the local authority 's actions now on several occasions and I have to say that I do not understand what findings the justices believed that they were making or what reasons they were giving for their decision in that brief statement , which I have just quoted in full . |
| 7 | I am bound to say that I do not believe that this debate has reached the level of fizz that one might have associated with a Bill that was to be fought doggedly tooth and nail by the Opposition . |
| 8 | Suffice to say that I do not believe that human activity can be explained from or reduced to the ecological level . |
| 9 | ‘ There is much to say and I know not where to begin . |
| 10 | In actual fact I 've got a friend and I go potholing with him , we meet , he 's a Kendall farmer , he 's a a sheep farmer and er , we meet and he says you know what I 've got a problem with on my land , not foxes dogs and walkers that have n't got them on the leads and crows at lambing time cos they peck their eyes out and things of that calibre , he says yes , I 'll tell you what I 'll bet you I 've had animals taken by foxes he , he says I probably have , he said but I 've not had this kind of unindeighted killing as . |
| 11 | I can only say that I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whither they are going . |
| 12 | In responding to the hon. Gentleman 's reference to Sir James Barrie , I should say that I do not , I fear , have a drop of Scottish blood , but he was my father 's godfather . |
| 13 | I must say that I do not at present find the time at all tedious and I may say scarcely monotonous . |
| 14 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |