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Example sentences of "i do [not/n't] say " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	All we can find out ‘ by the appearances or effects of nature , which we know by sense , [ are ] some ways and means by which they may be , I do not say they are , generated ’ .
2	Why should you choose , if you could , and I do not say that you could , to leave your children ?
3	I do not say that to mislead you into thinking that Australia is a nasty poisonous place and you 're safe in good old Britain .
4	So I do not say , ‘ Believe me , for I can not tell a lie . ’
5	I do not say an intellectual man can not follow the path .
6	‘ I do not say that .
7	I do not say , either , that these rights and duties should be tied into one package , that if a young person wants to assume any of them , he must assume them all .
8	‘ I do not say it will happen , I am just telling you . ’
9	I can not say , and I do not say , that it is bound to be .
10	I can not say , and I do not say , that it is bound to be .
11	I do not say this on the basis that I consider her approach irrational .
12	I do not say this to just anyone , it would not be correct to do so .
13	" A day may come — I do not say it will come , but that it may — when bands of Englishmen from the Tweed to the Tamar , sickened by the prevarications of the capitalists and by the continued infiltration of Celtic elements into English life , will arise with guns in their hands .
14	I do not say that we should pull up the anchor and take the United Kingdom somewhere else .
15	It was impossible to imagine a people — ; I do not say a government — with less relish for war , if my contacts with the Italian colonists and equally with the Italian army were any guide .
16	I do not say that in order to condemn the people who work in those industries .
17	All that is true , but I do not say that young people who have been deprived in that way should go out and steal cars .
18	I do not say that to score a cheap point .
19	I do not say this in a malicious way or to score debating points , but I said that the chairman of Scottish Nuclear had argued at the Nuclear Forum that there might be a case , in the strategic interests of the nation , to subsidise nuclear power .
20	I do not say that in party-political terms , because the Government 's objective is the same as mine .
21	An acceptable reason for not introducing an FE funding council — although I do not say that the reason would be either accurate or right — would be if the Government intended to merge it with the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council .
22	I do not say that people ’ have it taken out of them ’ for making a complaint at the time when that complaint is made , but there may be a problem the next time something happens .
23	I do not say that they all had the high quality of the measure that he introduced , but they were very fine measures indeed .
24	Sunil is an unregenerate homosexual — you note I do not say ‘ gay ’ , a word which has been infamously ghettoised — and he appears to find me , at this stage of his life , to his taste . ’
25	He came into the witness-box today , and I gather it is his normal mode of locomotion , using two elbow crutches in order to get about , and from the reports it is quite plain that the pain is more or less continuous — I do not say without any intermission at all , but there is constant pain in his hip .
26	I do not say that in any criticism of the existing police authorities , my experience as Home Secretary I have to admit now some ten years ago was that on the whole they did a very good job , but I do now accept that the importance of law and order today demands a broad approach and possibly some new ideas .
27	I do not say this in any triumphant way .
28	when you said I do not say in the absence
29	I du n no what she 's going on about , so I do n't say nothing .
30	There 's a few knots in it and it hurts a bit when she tugs the comb , but I do n't say nothing .