Example sentences of "not have said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hermione Lee is admirably judicious about all this , pointing out both that we have a perfect right to say things about a writer that we would not have said in their lifetime , and that ‘ to account for Cather 's fiction by reading it as an encoding of covert , even guilty sexuality is , I think , both patronising and narrow . ’ |
| 2 | While he may not have said in so any words that these encounters with the press had been an " eye-opener , he did remember that he had been sincerely treated by the Journalists courtesy and by the beneficent power of journalism in the modern world . " |
| 3 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 4 | If conditions did n't improve soon she 'd be in very real danger of getting stuck in the snow — as it was she could n't have said with any real certainty whether she was driving on the road or in a field . |
| 5 | Fabia knew that her mind was made up then , even though she could n't have said with any conviction that she looked forward to going up to that large , elegant house again in a week from now . |