Example sentences of "not have said " in BNC.

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31 She knew immediately that she should not have said that .
32 She wanted to get it out , get it over and done with , and she could not have said anything worse .
33 I should not have said so much .
34 Although why it should have plummeted to her feet at the mention of the unknown Joanna , she could not have said .
35 I could not have said it better or more concisely .
36 The Prime Minister could not have said that between 1987 and April 1991 — the four years when child benefit was frozen .
37 Robert could not have said why , but he had the strong impression that the engineering master , too , had been listening at the door .
38 And he could believe that although Zoser might not have said these things he had actually felt them .
39 What he should not have said is that he was pleased to join Blackburn 'cos they were going places , implying he did n't think Leeds were going to have any more success .
40 ‘ I could not have said it better myself , ’ he said coldly .
41 She says ’ Had I been alone and not so near a phone box who is to say I would not have said yes .
42 Before Sunday I would not have said that .
43 Dagmar was a real pain sometimes , coming out with things you 'd rather not have said .
44 ‘ But after he sat down and thought about it he has come in and apologised to the lads and realised he maybe should not have said it .
45 erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time .
46 I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much .
47 ‘ I 'm sorry , sir , I should n't have said that . ’
48 ‘ I should n't have said that , ’ he went on .
49 ‘ You should n't have said that , Charlie . ’
50 It must be possible , or the vet would n't have said it .
51 I should n't have said that , Crevecoeur thought , too late .
52 I should n't have said the things I did .
53 I was feeling pretty fed up but I should n't have said what I did .
54 Then , ‘ Oh I am terribly sorry , perhaps I should n't have said that ? ’
55 Ten days before , the lad could n't have said that .
56 ‘ I would n't have said sinister .
57 There followed a silence during which Agnes gripped the stanchion of the door and brought her chin tight into her chest , only to raise it again as she endeavoured to hear what her father was now saying quietly and with a purposeful intent , ‘ You should n't have said that , Alice .
58 You should n't have said that . ’
59 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 . ’
60 Though he could n't have said what that purpose might be .
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