Example sentences of "[was/were] n't say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were n't said triumphantly . |
| 2 | They never did know or if they did they were n't saying . |
| 3 | They were n't saying anything . ’ |
| 4 | That the Hall was sometimes used as a refuge for recusants and fugitive priests was the subject of frequent speculation among the fishermen who gathered in Mother Russell 's alehouse , but if some knew more than others , they were n't saying : no one could ever be sure , after all , whether Elizabeth might one day be toppled by Queen Mary of Scotland , and England taken back into the arms of Rome all over again . |
| 5 | It 's just that you were n't saying a lot . ’ |
| 6 | They certainly were n't saying it about Lester Piggott on Royal Academy a couple of years back either . |
| 7 | Police were n't saying which terrorist group was responsible . |
| 8 | That was n't to say she did n't like him , because she did , but then it would be very hard not to ! |
| 9 | What can you say about the game that was n't said in the last caption ? |
| 10 | I was given to believe that would have been in the flat also we thought that st was going to be in there possibly a wife and it was n't said whether there were any children . |
| 11 | It was n't said that there were cells that actually corresponded to those features , not but nonetheless the output from the system could be thought of as a feature detection system . |
| 12 | but there was n't said at the council , they said that they realize that what there has to be done ca n't be done so , so quickly , you see the past in what er back end of October |
| 13 | She was n't saying anything , but Ma smiled at her as if she had done something very clever . |
| 14 | They wanted him to like this house but he did n't , and he was n't saying so just so they 'd feel better . |
| 15 | He was n't saying any more . |
| 16 | I rang the senior registrar to tell him but realised after a while he was n't saying much . |
| 17 | If Andropulos knew it was n't a jet carrying hundreds of passengers , his face was n't saying so . |
| 18 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 19 | ‘ She carried on chattering away happily for a while before she realized that Uncle Albert was n't saying much . |
| 20 | He was n't saying he thought her desirable , was he ? |
| 21 | But he was n't saying that he was getting eighteen thousand a year from Ffestiniog slate alone as a director 's bonus and he 's a director of the other quarries as well . |
| 22 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 23 | Now , Freud was n't saying that every time you dream about an umbrella you 're , you 're dreaming some kind of sexual wish , erm , but what he 's saying is that umbrellas and other things that can erm become erect or open out often do represent but you could conceivably have an umbrella dream in which the umbrella , through your private associations , stood for something completely different , it 's quite , it 's quite possible . |
| 24 | He was n't saying much ; mostly ‘ yessir ’ and ‘ certainly ’ and he ended with the words ‘ Very well , Mr Prior ’ and hung up . |
| 25 | I was n't saying Kerslake was crap , just that I would swap him for Dixon , Parker , Nilsson or Rob Jones . |
| 26 | Which was n't saying much , she 'd thought gloomily , glancing down at the brief scraps of material . |
| 27 | I was n't saying , no I ca n't do another television show , no I ca n't make another public appearance . |
| 28 | He was n't saying . |
| 29 | And you know this time when I went on a plane and I looked down , I was n't saying it to Ben |
| 30 | I was n't saying oh I know it all , you ca n't tell me how to superior attitude |