Example sentences of "no [indef pn] [modal v] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No one 'll say that of me , eh , Lily , eh , Ethel ? |
| 2 | I know they 've got a bit of crime rate with burglaries but it 's not actual violence round , and round Valley you can do the same , go in a pub and come out , and er no one 'll say nothing . |
| 3 | No one would say that the need only becomes immediate when rain is imminent ; the need is immediate from the start because rain is certain to fall some time . |
| 4 | He did not think that a state in which a rich majority governed could be properly called a democracy : " suppose a total of one thousand three hundred ; one thousand of these are rich , they give no share in government to the three hundred poor , who also are free men and in other respects like them ; no one would say that these thirteen hundred lived under a democracy . " |
| 5 | Where I worked in the university , if a woman came in covered in bruises , no one would say anything , although we all knew what had happened . |
| 6 | No one would say that about Rob or Jen . |
| 7 | Yeah , you say that , but you know , your , if you had underarm hair , no one would say hmm , that man 's got underarm hair I mean , it 's quite alright , but for women to have underarm hair , it 's just not . |
| 8 | He is down , but his stranglehold on the retail jewellery scene means that no one should say he is out . |
| 9 | It is known that SCAMP cost £3 million but no one will say what percentage of that figure is public money . |
| 10 | ‘ No one will say a thing about her separation . |
| 11 | To the Pharisees , who were blind to the evidence before their eyes , and were postponing their hopes to the future , our Lord responded , ‘ No one will say , ‘ Look , here it is ! ’ or , ‘ There it is ! ’ because the Kingdom of God is within you ’ ( Luke 17:21 ) . |
| 12 | If I round up all these criminals and trouble-makers , no one will say , ‘ What a clever man is Colonel Stok to grab these people before they could cause our country trouble . ’ |
| 13 | No one will deny we face a difficult situation ; no one will say the answers are easy or very obvious , or can be developed without the maximum cooperation between clergy and laity , parishes and deaneries with the diocese and between themselves and lots of goodwill and prayer . |
| 14 | No one can say how quickly the taste for risk and reward , the essential motor of a free market economy , will come back . |
| 15 | The message of the Burgess shale — that there has always been variety , and no one can say in what forms it will survive until it has done so — remains . |
| 16 | No one can say what the next century will bring . |
| 17 | No one can say that the scientists showed no conscience at that moment . |
| 18 | This is true , and no one can say they know a score , however well it may be known in the mind , until it has been tried on the orchestra . |
| 19 | No one can say that athletes are n't creatures of habit ! |
| 20 | ‘ No one can say , dear . |
| 21 | Whether or not it can cope with this , no one can say . |
| 22 | NO ONE can say he was not warned . |
| 23 | Whatever charges are levelled against the Waffen-SS , no one can say that Landau chose a soft option . |
| 24 | No one can say just how many species of animals there are in these greenhouse-humid dimly lit jungles . |
| 25 | No one can say that ideas are a sham . |
| 26 | But I thought , " Well , even if he wo n't listen , at least no one can say afterwards that we did n't do our best to warn him " . " |
| 27 | " Well , no one can say you have n't tried , " I said . |
| 28 | She says she 's determined to go along with the system , so no one can say she bucked it . |
| 29 | No one can say that it was I who insisted on having someone in . |
| 30 | But no one can say Bishop Malduin has not received latitude . |