Example sentences of "[not/n't] say that i [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit .
2 Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration .
3 That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them .
4 That is not to say that I have n't got sympathy for the problem that he 's faced with .
5 and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues .
6 ‘ So I ca n't say that I know where your mother is or why she left . ’
7 I ca n't say that I 've even found cases with definite pathology needing to dilute more .
8 ‘ Well , I ca n't say that I 've really earned this , ’ said John , taking a cup , ‘ but perhaps I can be forgiven my first day .
9 As someone seduced by the clever remake that was ‘ Iron Lion Zion ’ , I ca n't say that I feel quite as lubricated by this one .
10 " I ca n't say that I see why not .
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