Example sentences of "they say [pron] [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing dogs for the deaf have become increasingly popular over the past ten years — now the staff who train them say they ca n't cope with the demand . |
| 2 | I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that . |
| 3 | Yeah , but the trouble with it there is that very often you get , you get half of them say we ca n't come Tuesday , but we can come Wednesday |
| 4 | They say they wo n't leave without a fight . |
| 5 | And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it . |
| 6 | They say they wo n't buy mahogany from loggers convicted of malpractice , but insisted an immediate stop on the trade would cost jobs . |
| 7 | They say they wo n't believe that . |
| 8 | Like , say they 've been out on a run and there 's a call , they say they ca n't go out because they 're not in uniform and are all sweaty ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 27 ) . |
| 9 | I 'm saying this because GCSE includes a section on improvisation , and a lot of teachers ca n't do it ; they say they ca n't do it … |
| 10 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 11 | And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it . |
| 12 | I 've got official forms here from the tax office , I mean , they say they ca n't accept it ! |
| 13 | They say they ca n't discuss the case until the inquest is over . |
| 14 | They say they ca n't afford it , we say that we must afford it . |
| 15 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 16 | Regarding the diabetic specialist nurse , yes , of course we would welcome a special unit , but that does seem a bit extravagant when they say they can not find enough money for one nurse . |
| 17 | One minute they say you ca n't eat , and then they say that you can eat it ! |
| 18 | They say you ca n't teach an old dog new tricks , but I 'm living proof . |
| 19 | They might well have done of course they might have refused it 's the B B C they say you ca n't have a bottle |
| 20 | They say you should n't do that . |
| 21 | They say it wo n't take you long ! |
| 22 | And they say I ca n't remember it just happened so quick that I ca n't remember , they have been unconscious for a , it may be just a split second , it 's affected the brain , they are concussed . |
| 23 | They say he may not live out the summer . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But they say he must n't go home and live on his own , not for a long while at any rate . ’ |