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 . |